Rafa Grimán wrote:
On Thursday 03 February 2011 14:59 Giles Coochey wrote
On 03/02/2011 14:40, Rafa Griman wrote:
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:44 PM, James Bensleyjwbensley@gmail.com
wrote:
So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in I couldn't ssh in anymore). Only I and one other know it and neither of us have changed it. No other account had the correct privileges to correct this so I'm wondering, if I had mounted that vdi as a secondary device on another VM, browsed the file system and delete /etc/shadow would this have wiped all users passwords meaning I could regain access again?
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That would do it... There is single-user-mode (runlevel 1), just add the word single to the kernel parameters line before bootup
Yes, but S|Single|1 asks for root password to login ... And he doesn't have the root password ;)
Boot from a rescue CD/DVD, then chroot and use passwd.
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