Dear friends,
I am using linux os .
my root passward has expired suddenly.
in command prompt iam giving su-
and password
it is saying that your root password has expired .
how to get my root password.
anyone pls rep.
rajan
try to boot into single-mode, in some linux systems you can change root password from there.
what to do:
in GRUB, select "edit command before booting" and append new last string with single text.
when you system has loaded, remount root partition to read-write mode
mount -ow /
and change password.
then reboot
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Sorry for bad english, it's not my native language
dear lorentz,
what is GRUB
where it will be located
explain detail.
It seems that you using "LILO" boot-loader. At the system start-up you will either get "Lilo boot:" displayed for shot-time or you may see a Bitmap image displaying the selection of O.S. you wanted to boot.
In case you getting bitmap display then just press Ctrl+X so you will get classical "LILO boot:" prompt. There by pressing TAB you will get name of the kernel images to boot from. Just type any name and after that you type "single" without quotes ("). Then you can change/manipulate root password in regular way.
Example:
LILO boot: [TAB]
linux linux-up
LILO boot: linux single [ENTER]
LILO booting linux....