[mdlug] [WLUG] SuSE root breakin help needed

[Brian]

On Monday 26 May 2008 04:11:17 pm Jay Nugent wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> On Mon, 26 May 2008, Joe Landman wrote:
> > Jay Nugent wrote:
> > >    Can't seem to get the hard drive mounted after trying all sorts of
> > > permutations of fstab.  I don't know the exact partitioning of the hard
> > > drive but *seem* to recall it was basically three partitions, /, /home,
> > > and swap, and that it is a SATA drive.  But I can't recall whether it
> > > had
> >
> > 	parted /dev/sda print
> >
> > should tell you most of what you need to know.  Then once you see the
> > layout, you can create temporary mount points
> >
> > 	mkdir /mnt/t1 /mnt/t2 /mnt/t3
> >
> > and
> >
> > 	mount  /dev/sda1 /mnt/t1
>
>    Thanks Joe!  I was *so* relieved to see that LVM was not used.  And
> this got me onto the hard drive where I was then able to vi the
> /etc/passwd file and blank out the root password field.
>
>    root::0:3::/:/bin/bash
>
>    Rebooted, and at the login screen it refused to let me login to root
> with a *blank* password :(

At lilo prompt,

linux init=/bin/bash

Once you're dropped down to a shell:
mount -o remount,rw / #remount root disk as read/write

Then mount /usr if necessary and just use the password command to change roots 
password to whatever you like.

-- 
Brian
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