FC 11 Boot mode single user [recovery password]

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Mon Aug 10 19:42:33 UTC 2009


On 08/10/2009 09:01 AM, Tiago Araujo wrote:
> Dear,
>
> I need recovery password in FC 11.
>
>
There is none. The best way to recover a lost root password is to boot
the installation media, the root file system should be mounted on
/mnt/sysimage, but if it is not, you can mount it by hand.

The use the chroot(8) command  to set /mnt/sysimage as your root, then
use the passwd(1) command to change the password, then to be safe,
unmount /mnt/sysimage.

Example:
(if the root file system is not mounted: mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sysimage
(assuming this is where root is) )
chroot /mnt/sysimage
passwd
-->you will be prompted
umount /mnt/sysimage

The reboot. The umount is very important.


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