Root password
login: root Password: login: Authentication failure Sorry.
The story begins badly. If you’ve forgotten the root password of an old linux station, like me this week-end, you’ve got a last change:
- reboot the system,
- boot by using /bin/bash as init,
- remount in read/write the root filesystem
- change the root password.
Something like that:
linux init=/bin/bash mount -o remount,rw / passwd reboot
You’ve just saved few hours ;o) Thanks to Tony Lawrence for his lostlinuxpassword page.