General :: Redhat Machine Acquired At Auction / Need To Reset Passwords
May 15, 2010How do I find out the existing root passwd or set up a new one? Edit mode was not an option at the GRUB menu.
View 14 RepliesHow do I find out the existing root passwd or set up a new one? Edit mode was not an option at the GRUB menu.
View 14 RepliesYesterday, when I was installing Redhat Enterprise 5.4 on a HP server, I asked myself "how can I regain my access to the server if I happen to forget the root password?" I knew there must be a way. I consulted with my friend "Google". I'd like to share it here as my 1st post (too bad that I'm not allowed to paste screenshots)
1) Boot up the server, when you are at the "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server..." entry, press "e".
2) Highlight the "kernel /vmlinuz...." line then press "e" again.
3) Type the word "single" to the end of the line (with an empty space before the word single). Press Enter.
4) Press "b"
5) System will boot. When you get the prompt "#", type "passwd" to enter in new password for root.
6) Reboot the system. Done
I mount my Fedora AMI on my EC2 account, when I reboot the system, the passwords for ec2-user and root are changed.On the web I found that is a "feature" .
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow Do I reset passwords in Ubuntu 10.10?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have couple of users in one machine. I can access the /etc/passwd,/etc/shadow and /etc/group files in this box. I have another box. I want to create some user accounts in the second box by just looking in the passwd, shadow and group files in the first box. I would just copy over the corresponding lines into the corresponding for whichever accounts I want to create as new and also change the lines for which I want to update the account information. Is this possible and will also the passwords work fine? Please also let me know there is any good tool for automatically doing this kind of stuff. Both the boxes that I have are Ubuntu machines though one is running Ubuntu 8.04 and the other is 10.04.
View 5 Replies View RelatedEvolution keeps asking me asking for the passwords for the mail servers I use for the key ring. And sometimes crashes if I try to cancel. I mean it asked yesterday and then again today.Is there anyway to reset the key ring passwords and start from scratch.Apparently to many things use key ring so it can't be removed.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI try to access my ubuntu machine via my Windows Machine (Samba Server on Ubuntu Machine). Anytime I try to access the machine it asks me for my password...I enter it but it says it is invalid....is there anyway to reset it? I have already tried to remove and purge everything Samba related and then tried reinstalling, but that still didn't do anything
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to use Notepad++ on my RedHat machine. But there is no setup file available for Linux. What should I do?
View 1 Replies View Relatedhow to know specification of my machine on linux redhat 5?like the size of harddesk and free space on it
Ram , VGA , and so on.
I am facing the below problem while installing ClearCase 7.1 in a redhat 5.4 machine.Error during "post-install configure" phase:
Error executing "/opt/IBM/RationalSDLC/clearcase/etc/clearcase" operation (status=50).
See agent output log for more information: /var/ibm/InstallationManager/logs/native/20110519_0846.log
Install:
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I want to change the Hostname of my Red Hat9 Linux machine using command line. By default it show me as following
[root@localhost root]#
I want to see it as
[root@pc1 root]#
Is there any way to change host name?
can some one guide me about wd mypassport 500gb how to mount in redhat machine
View 3 Replies View RelatedDo these guides work with resetting the current fedora root passwords?
http://www.labtestproject.com/linuse..._password.html
http://www.labtestproject.com/using_...d_on_fedora_10
Can I get someone that is using Ubuntu/Lucid and Firefox as browser to run a test for me? Can you go to this website and then type the either the word "HIGH" or the word "LOW" in the search box and then tell me if you get the same bunch of program error codings that I get when I try this ? Want to see if this is a problem with just my computer setup or with the websites programming. [URL].
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to create a smb share on a redhat machine, in which want to give permission as follows:
3 users a,b,c a have read and write but b & c have read only permission.
I have a task for installation redhat 5.2 on a remote machine . There is no operating system on that machine . Is there any way to installation. Is it possible to have a ip without any operating system on the machine. Please tell me the solution.
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I been havin a problem whit the installation of fedora 12 on virtual pc, gives me the error:
"An unrecoverable processor error has been encountered.The virtual machine will reset now."
I wonder if it is possible to have two passwords for one user account in 9.10. I have a long login password (5 words about 45 characters with spaces caps). I would like to set a shorter password for Authentication, sudo, etc. While retaining the original for logging in.In short:Have long password to login to computer.Have short password for everything after login.
View 6 Replies View RelatedThe weirdest thing I have ever saw happened today after i rebooted my server.I have an IDE drive with fedora core 12 installed.I have 4 500g sata drives that I made a FD partition on.
Created the raid using mdadm and had a sh script that assembled and mounted.This worked just fine for 4 days and about 6 reboots.then the other day I noticed an odd amount of net traffic coming in and out of the box and took it down to do some router configuring.
After I brought it back up and ran the sh script, I got a weird error, /dev/sdc device was busy. so I did an fdisk /dev/sdc, and sure enough it had a swap space and boot partition. I deleted em, rebooted and now I'm stuck at the grub screen. Somehow my drive names got fubared and I don't know how to recover my system.
can any one provide the steps to install and configure Nagios in Redhat Linux machine?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm using xp with one primary partition(C) for xp os,three logical drives(All NTFS).Now i want dual boot with red hat linux.When i inserted the dvd and booted from dvd,it is not going further from starting menu page(press F1-help,....F5-rescue mode).When i installed in vmware it was installed properly.But here why it was not running.I can't buy another hard drive for linux,i have to use the existing disk for both xp and linux....
View 3 Replies View Relatedseahorse export menu is always disabled. I need to export the passwords to restore it after formatting my machine.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIm having a frustrating issue with my two machine cluster I setup using Conga. Everything was working great except now when lucci starts mysql the port (3306) is never opened to outside machines. I can do a "ps -ef | grep mysql" and see it running as well as login to mysql on the node it is running on - but an nmap of the machine does not show the 3306 port and I cannot login to mysql remotely and yes I turned off all iptables(iptables,ip6tables) and SElinux is disabled.What am I missing here? If I start mysql on my own (and it is using the same my.cnf as lucci is) it does show the port open and works perfect,t for some reason when lucci starts it, no dice
View 1 Replies View RelatedI cant mount a directory on red hat 5 from red hat 4 using fstab.I keep getting permission denied.I mount directories on the same red hat 5 sys from other red hat 5 and 2 old HPUX systems using fstab.When I try to telnet to it i get "no route to host."
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have acquired a Canopus ACEDVio video capture card and can not get it to work.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm unable to reset using either the reset option in gnome shell or the command using a terminal. When I select it the shell exits and displays the graphic "exploding" and then it just sits there. Shutdown works fine; just no reset. Any ideas? I've installed from the DVD. I booted the live CD and it resets just fine so I know it's no my hardware
View 1 Replies View RelatedI got the error: "An unrecoverable processor error has been encountered. The virtual machine will reset now." I have edited the options in installation screen with adding noreplace-paravirt at the end of boot parameters. but still have this error and FC installation does not continue.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI am not a Linux user but and learning about it in a class and thought I would check it out. My teacher said that two linux users cannot have the same passwords but never explained why?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI was wounder if there is a way to add two different passwords for one user.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI can not manage to get any passwords on my network with Ettercap.I have followed several tutorials but I still seem to have no luck in getting them.I have BT5/KDE/32bit installed and using an alfa network adapter (RTL8187).First I configured etter.conf script to look as below:
ec_uid = 0 # root is the default
ec_gid = 0 # root is the default
# the command used by the remote_browser plugin
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