multiple root accounts

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 07:11:05PM +0000, azeem ahmad wrote:
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> >--
> making alias to 0, how it could be done?
> and also the scenario is someone once changed my machine's root password. 
> now if i had another root account i could access my machine and reset root 
> password again
> 
There an easier way to that. When the grub menu comes up type e to edit
the line highlighted line. Then put a 1 at the end of the line.
Then when you type b you will boot into run level 1 as root user. Then
you can change the root passwd, Hit ctl-d I think will reboot the
machine to run level 5 and you now know the root passwd.

Two more things:
pinfo grub will give you the details of this process.
Any one who has access to your console can do this so watch out.
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Aaron Konstam
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Trinity University
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