General :: Don't Have Root Password And Checking Umbutu It Does Not Appear
Jun 27, 2011
I just installed umbutu 10 on a virtual machine running on VMware workstation 7.Workstation asked me for a username & password, which I supplied.The install went fine, and I logged on with the credintials that I provided to WorkStation. So far so good.I then downloaded Webmin and installed it, again no problems.I go to the provided link: URL... and it wants me to log-in as root.But I don't have the root password and checking umbutu it does not appear that I have a root user so that I can set a password.
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Jan 11, 2010
I have seen this message more then once and I cannot find information that is understandable to me and which is recent, so maybe the situation has changed with newer kernels/file systems. My question: is this normal behavior with linux and beside from increasing the number of start-ups after which this check runs, is there another way to avoid this? Isn't there a way to do a check after the os has been loaded?
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Jan 19, 2010
I have a Rad Hat 7.0 old Linux system that crashed due to power failure. On reboot the system goes to Checking Root File System and does 92.5% check and fails.
Here are the error messages I get.
I don't know what to do at this point so I say yes and it goes in some wierd mode.
SO I ran fsck manually but I get an error PARALLEIZING FSCK.
I can't fix the corrupted stuff for the system to reboot. THIS IS VITAL.
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Jul 23, 2009
I am an absolute Linux Beginner who is being required to do a bit of admin work because the boss just fired the old linux admin. Unfortunately, one of our employees cannot remember her password to her email account and as such I need to reset it on our linux server.What I want to check is that this email account is actually a linux user account and I simply will reset the password for it using the passwd command from the root login. Is that correct?
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Mar 2, 2010
i used opensuse 11.1 ...there is option for root user to create password for root...but for ubuntu i did not find anything like that...so how can i create root password....or how can i use root
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Apr 9, 2010
I was trying to edit a file requiring root permissions, so I used sudo. I typed the root password and it failed. This happened three times, and the process was ended. I then logged in as root (su) and was able to navigate to the file and make changes as root. Am I missing something? How would I edit the sudoers file such that this password would work? Or is there another way to log in to the sudo group to make these changes? How do I set sudo passwords?
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Jul 2, 2010
i forgot root password and how to change the password
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Jun 25, 2010
When I installed the OS, I wasn't prompted to set the root password. Is this a bug, or did my install hose up?
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Feb 10, 2010
I am trying to log into a server with a particular account. Let's say I don't know the password for that account. Can I do this using ssh? I am wondering if it is possible to do it in one command, instead of logging in as root and running su.
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Jul 12, 2009
I'm not necessarily gonna do this, but I have to know. Is there a way to make the system not complain about every single freaking password you try to use? Make it so that any regular user could make "hello" their password without complaint? Like I said, I won't necessarily do it, but I have to know if it can be done.I did some searching and found the su -c "passwd username" trick, which is working for right now (I have root access but a user account I made for a friend doesn't)... it's just irritating when it won't even let him use something like "snuh123" because it seems to think it's based on a (reversed) dictionary word. Any use of a dictionary word, even with other chars, fails
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Oct 9, 2010
What's the best way to handle checking for a similar password?
IE. What would a possible algorithm be to generate the error "this password is too similar to one of your previous passwords"
I thought about adding the ascii value of each letter and then adding them and looking for at least a difference of X.
What methods have yall seen used for this?
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Sep 15, 2010
I have switched recently from Ubuntu to Debian and overall I am enjoying it. However I was just wondering, does Debian, like Ubuntu check the filesystem at boot periodically or if damaged, because it is doing neither in my case? How do I get it to do this
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Jun 6, 2010
I want to create a file in the /root directory and then make sure it exists. The following code keeps telling me that the file doesn't exist even though it does.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo -e "username=someusername
passwordsomepassword" | sudo tee /root/.credentials
if [ -e /root/.credentials ]; then
echo "File exists!"
[Code]...
[Edit] Added second double quotation mark at the end of "somepassword"
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Jun 16, 2010
How can I get root passwd when I forgot it?
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Jun 10, 2010
Yesterday I re-installed Musix over top of another installation of Musix using the keep files option.I did this because after it froze last night it would boot up properly.I got that problem fixed and I still have all of my files and settings but I am having one problem now:root has a password and I can't guess what it is.
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Apr 30, 2010
I am using openSUSE 11.1 and I've lost my root password.The following didn't worked :-
Restart
give parameters " 1"
press e
press b ...
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Aug 18, 2010
I'm trying do some tests about recover root's password but I'm having some problems.My OS used to do the test is fedora 12.I'm trying to boot with ubuntu 10.04 and trying to recover the rot's password.When I edit /etc/shadown and erase the password field, the system can't logging anymore, all the other users cann't logging anymore.
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Jan 12, 2010
How come I can log in under my username using root password? Where can I fix this? I am running Fedora 10.
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Apr 21, 2011
Fsck is not check any file system which are not root file system at boot time.
Normally it run: /sbin/fsck -A -R -C -a
But this command doesn't do anything.
I've tried to strace it, and looks like this:
Code:
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Mar 17, 2010
What's the default root password in DSLinux, or in any Linux distribution?
I didn't set it.
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Jul 9, 2010
When I run sudo as a normal unprivileged user, it asks for my password, not the root password. That's often convenient, but it reduces the amount of information someone would have to have in order to run commands as root. So how can I make sudo ask for the root password instead of the invoking user's password? I know it'd be done with a line in /etc/sudoers, but I can never seem to properly parse the BNF grammar in the man page to figure out exactly what to write.
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May 6, 2011
I'm using rhel 5, when i'm working in terminal first i typed su command and by mistake i entered copy command and some other characters, after realising i've made a mistake then i came out and continued with copy command in terminal.
after some time when i tried to login by using su and with password it says "incorrect password". So i logged out and entered root login for gui and it works well, but i'm not able to use the same password for su. can some one get around this issue?
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Jul 31, 2010
regarding the file permissions of /etc/passwd in fact it has permissions like rw-r--r--so it says others have only read only permissions but my questions is if others has read only permissions on /etc/passwd file.how they are able to change their password i.e others are able to change their passwords then how it is possible.
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Mar 9, 2010
How could I set screen resolution without root password. try to change the resolution since the default resolution setting is only 800x600.
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Apr 3, 2010
Whenever I got to type the command below:
#iwconfig eth1 essid mynetwork key xxxxxxxx
#dhclient eth1
to use this command, i have to be in su or sudo. Is there a way I could allow all users to invoke these commands without the root password?? I try to make a file (wireless.sh), which consists the commands above, in /usr/local/bin/. Change the mode to 755 (chmod 755 wireless.sh) however, it does not allow me to use this also.
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Apr 17, 2010
i am using ubuntu 9.10...i want to know if there is any way to get root password...
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Sep 4, 2010
When I try to do
Quote:
sudo su root
The login is successful without prompting a password. This is dangerous. How am I going to avoid/disable this?
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Feb 22, 2010
I'm trying to install Skype on an Aspire One netbook, it shows the file in the downloads section but every time I click on it it asks for an administrator password. If I put this in the window closes and then comes up asking for it again a few seconds later, but if I put in the wrong password it gives me the option of changing it, but still won't allow me to run the programme
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Mar 27, 2011
Is there a default password for root on pclinuxos? I didn't have an option to set the pw on reboot and it is no longer 'root'. I can't open the synaptic package manager or install wine without it, it seems.
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Feb 18, 2011
I can not entered root password via terminal while doing this it replied incorrect password even same password can be used from another GUI box. When I tried to use command Clt+Alt+F1, only black screen comes. I am using coreutils 8.4-9.fc13 from fedora of 32 bits
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