technical question
Casey Dahlin
cjdahlin at ncsu.edu
Thu Oct 4 06:37:50 UTC 2007
Well welcome aboard.
This might have been the harder way to do things. I assumed that you
didn't know the root (administrator) password either.
Well, with luck you'll never have to do this again :)
I will mention again that fedora-devel-list is where the engineers do
the grunt work on fedora, and they really can't do tech support. The
users list is for these kinds of questions:
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Hope I helped. Now to bed. :)
--CJD
Sam Gordon wrote:
> working with linux is harder then flying a plane for me lol....ive
> never used it before im a windows person and my friend is trying to
> successfully pull me away from it
>
> On 10/4/07, * Casey Dahlin* <cjdahlin at ncsu.edu
> <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu>> wrote:
>
> That would be the command prompt :)
>
> Linux users who haven't seen a shell before. Fancy this wondrous
> modern
> age we live in. Type the following:
>
> passwd root
>
> and you can change the root password. Then type
>
> passwd <your friend's username here>
>
> and you can change his password.
>
> Sam Gordon wrote:
> > im probably buggin the hell out of u and im sorry....it rebooted it
> > after i wrote single in the line for the kernels but now its
> stuck at
> > sh-3.1#
> > and doesnt load anything
> >
> > On 10/4/07, *Casey Dahlin* <cjdahlin at ncsu.edu
> <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu>
> > <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu>>> wrote:
> >
> > Modify kernel arguments. You want to add 'single' to the end
> of the
> > arguments list.
> >
> > Sam Gordon wrote:
> > > hey wow that was fast cool...ok im in some screen and its
> says GNU
> > > GRUB vr. 0.97
> > > Fedora Core( 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
> > > i guess its like a boot window...i cant like edit commands
> before
> > > booting, modify kernel arguments before booting, or go to
> > command line...
> > > is this where i type what u said or the main login window
> after the
> > > system starts up?
> > > cuz i tried /etc/passwd and that didnt work at all...and u
> attached
> > > something do i input that sumwhere?
> > >
> > > On 10/4/07, *Casey Dahlin* < cjdahlin at ncsu.edu
> <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu>
> > <mailto: cjdahlin at ncsu.edu <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu>>
> > > <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu>
> <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu>>>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sam Gordon wrote:
> > > > hi i got a question..my friend installed fedora on my pc
> > and put in
> > > > the username password and now he doesnt remember it
> lol..and i
> > > have no
> > > > idea what it is because he installed it...is there a
> way to
> > > override
> > > > the login or somehow bypass it and change the
> information?
> > plz just
> > > > tell me what my options r in the matter
> > >
> > > This list is for development discussion. For help and
> > support you
> > > should
> > > try fedoraforum.org <http://fedoraforum.org>
> <http://fedoraforum.org>
> > <http://fedoraforum.org> or #fedora on
> > > irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net>
> <http://irc.freenode.net>
> > <http://irc.freenode.net> . That being said,
> > > from the grub screen, edit your default boot settings and
> > add the word
> > > 'single' (without quotes) to the end of the line
> mentioning
> > > 'vmlinuz' .
> > > When you boot, you will get a text-only shell with root
> > privileges.
> > >
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