[wplug] root password lost? (RH 9)

[Robert E. Coutch]

I'm not sure if this will work but...........

Boot from the RH9 install CD.

Type in:

linux rescue

at the prompt.

Let the system detect your current installation.

Change (cd) to the root directory of your installation, should be 
something like
/mnt/sysinstall/

then chroot in that directory.

Now run password to change the root password and reboot.

Did that work?

-Bob


Ryan W. Frenz wrote:

>I am in the process of setting up a small network at my house so my
>roommates and I can share files, etc.  I have an old IBM laptop on which
>I have put a minimal server install of RedHat 9.0.  The eventual plan is
>to plug this into the network and forward certain ports so we can get
>files from outside our LAN via ssh, ftp, whatever.  I've done that
>before and it isn't really my problem.  However, after installing
>RedHat, I logged in as root and began to add accounts for myself and
>each of my roommates (5 of us total).  Not a problem.  After creating
>the accounts I logged in as each to make sure everything looked ok.  It
>did.  Then, I tried to log in as root again, and RedHat won't let me,
>saying 'Invalid Password'.  It seems like at some point the root
>password got corrupted or lost.  And yes, I tried all the standard
>dumbass fixes, like making sure capslock wasn't down, etc.  Has anyone
>ever seen this?  I found some stuff on google about loading 'linux
>single' from a LILO prompt and then setting the password from there, but
>all I can get on startup is a GRUB prompt.  Is there an equivalent
>procedure for GRUB?  Keep in mind I am fairly new to linux, very new to
>RedHat, and extremely new to any kind of system administration.  Any
>help would be appreciated.
>
>Ryan
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