Red Hat / Fedora :: Lost Password/user Name?
Nov 19, 2010
I have lost my password and user name for my installation of Fedora 8, i do not need to get it running again as i am preparing the pc for sale but i have several gigs of photos on there and i would like to rescue them if possible, i thought i might be able to do it with a live cd and copy the files on to a usb stick but wanted to ask firsts i am a real amateur ie i never managed to understand how every thing works really.It is in duel boot with win xp sp3 and i could not get to the photos from there
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Apr 12, 2016
I have lost my password for my root and for my user account.
Code: Select alluser@debian:~$ su
Password:
su: Authentication failure
user@debian:~$ su
Password:
su: Authentication failure
user@debian:~$ su
I have just installed a gust debian 8 on debian 8 host in virtualbox, and when i wonted too login as su/root on the host there where no login possible, is there a way to regain the root password for the host?
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Oct 24, 2010
How to recover user password and root password in fedora if u forget
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Oct 13, 2010
I just got my computer up and running after several months of not working,nd have forgotten my password for the command prompt. Any help on where I could possibly find it. :/ odd question I know and I apologize. My second question is Im trying to use my android driod phone as a modem for the internet, I will be using the pdanet app so I am able to do this, yet during installing it on my phone it asked me if I was using a 32-bit windows
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Feb 6, 2010
Pulled out my old pc for the first time in about 18 months, which has fedora core 6 installed on it, tried everything but i cannot remember my username and password
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Aug 3, 2010
I just took a job and the admin password for the AFS is missing. How do I find/reset this password? I have the root password for the machine it is installed on.
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Dec 8, 2010
It has worked in the last week or so. Not sure when I ran it last. Now only root can run Open Office. The menu and a quick start Icon both give no response but su can call from the command line. I,user, can't. Seems there was a big OO update in the last several days, this might be the cause. I spoke too soon. Now su will not get it either. I tried su -l and su with no success. Also an Icon for OO quick start has gone away.
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May 28, 2011
I started from a Fedora 14 installation with user specific desktop setting, i.e. background, menu items, and so on.The upgade worked fine, but while loggin on I found a new environment (Gnome 3) an no user specific desktop settings.How can I upgrade from F14 to F15 without losing my desktop settings and without insatlling Gnome 3?
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Sep 28, 2010
I have a windows 7 ultimate host machine, installed oracle virtual box on it. Made a iso image to boot fr fedora. All this is fine when the installation is complete, it asks for reboot. Reboot done. Then I went to terminal. Did a SU - root to get into the root. Then I did a firstboot command to enter information. I created a user for myself and at the end rebooted the virtual box.
When it starts up, it does not show my user. It just shows "Automatic Login" and it logs in as Live System User. Even if I try to switch user then it gave me a authentication failure when I enter the credentials of the user which I created. If I try to create users manually using system administration, the user is lost after reboot. I have tried all possible steps...as instructed on the net.
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Jul 21, 2009
This is my 6th install of Fedora, begining with Fedora 4 I have had very good luck with all until 9 and I lost all data on drive by my bad clicks in a frustrated session. Now I have a great install of Fedora 10 with the exception that I fouled up and typed in a user (myself-'andybill') and am finding out that the work I need to do cannot be maximized by operating in user - andybill, I need to be super user. I have just moved and have not done any collaboration with our senior partner in a data development start up that he is the intellectual property in deed and law. For me to get back on track my using this OS I have to be master of all libraries, drivers etc. I am a nu-b (only 2 1/2 years, with no computer science background. This explains why I need step by step commands without abbriviated lingo-So if I can remove myself as andybill, make all root
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Jul 16, 2009
I hope I am in the right forum. I have a question about restricting users from being able to change their own passwords in Fedora 10. In Fedora 6, I was able to do this by using passwd with -n and -x flags. If I would set the -n value greater than the -x value, then the user would not be able to change his/her own password. If I do this in Fedora 10, this no longer works
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Mar 25, 2010
I am running Fedora 12 as Guest OS in VMware Player. I installed Fedora 12 by using a Prepackage VM . The root user name and p/w was supplied by the person who made this appliance. Is there way for me to change root user name and pw
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Sep 20, 2010
I want to use root password instead of adding my user to the list of sudoers,In Arch wiki ander Root password:Users can configure sudo to ask for the root password instead of the user password by adding "rootpw" to the Defaults line in /etc/sudoers: but that did not work for me. it asks for root password.Why do I want to do that:
1. I want to do that, I like sudo more than su -c 'some_command'.
2. sudo enables bash completion, su -c does not.
3. I don't want to add my user to sudoers list.
I found many users Suggesting alternatives and lowering the important of my need for this, when I asked this question in anther please.
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May 11, 2011
As the title says... (when using add/remove). Not sure how it got this way, so can't just put something back - need a way to correct it.
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Jun 19, 2010
I am able to ftp the root of my EC2 instance of fc12 with a private key. I do not know what commands were given to fc12 to get it to act this way but that is okay, it works for me.
I have created accounts for my users and set a password for each of them. The problem is that I am unable to ftp fc12 with the user name and password. The error message I get says there is no supported authentication method available.
I presume I must somehow change server security or something to allow access to users with passwords but I do not know how to do this.
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Mar 26, 2011
I need define a user /password for sasl but want the authentication at runtime be automatic - no explicit prompting the user while accessing a tcp socket with some applications that need the authentication (e.g libvirt)
so I try : saslpasswd2 -c -p -a libvirt <user>
and it hangs (if i now press Enter it says : "invalid parameter supplied") . if I avoid the -p flag the above commad works fine and prompts for password and later when using the tcp it prompts for the above defined user/password and autheticates ok .
But I want without the explicit authentication
The man pages says -p Pipe mode - saslpasswd2 will neither prompt for the password nor verify that it was entered correctly. This is the default when standard input is not a terminal.
In the past (before some upgrading of libvirt via rpm) I had the SASL authentication at runtime done automatically with no explicit prompting the user
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Jan 12, 2009
It seem like unix abit annoying every time you log in you need to password can I disable it
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Feb 5, 2010
today i got this message everytime i try to login to yahoo messenger:"gyachi invalid user or incorrect password !" The user and password are corect, if i switch to kopete or pidgin is all right.Only with gyachi i have that problem. Using Fedora 10, gyachi improved v1.2.3
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Oct 11, 2010
I have webmin and usermin setup.Iam using dovecot and sendmail ,I can use usermin to login ,check or send emails.Outlook and thunderbird works as well.
But I want to use something for webmail. I am trying squirrelmail but it keeps saying invalid user and or password.
the error log reports
dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (auth failed)
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Apr 13, 2011
I have a problem with my fedora workstation.I am trying to change my ldap user password through passwd command.When I first create the user on ldap server, I use md5 and create the user password.This is the entry:
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dn: uid=boo,ou=People,dc=linux,dc=gettolandia,dc=org
uid: boo
[code]....
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Jun 20, 2011
having a hard time mapping a drive from a windows xp PC to a Linux Share. I have edited the SMB.conf file to include the share I want to connect to. when I try try map a drive to the Linux share using NET USE M: \192.168.15.5pairing I get the following error:"system error 1326 has occurred.Logon filaure: unknown user name or bad password."I use a username and password that is valid on the Linux server and has access to the Share.
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Apr 16, 2010
I want b able to recover or reset the password that i lost. I have ubunto installed with windows vista. I used the following link for guidance: [URL].. tried recovery mode in grub it always asks me the same thing:"Give root password for maintenance". I also tried to edit and boot the kernel unfortunately it did not work. So i never have a prompt, it still asks me for the password.
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May 4, 2011
i changed my password and whenever i log in i get a message that ur login keyring password and user password do not match, so how do i change my login keyring password!!
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Aug 13, 2010
I have a kickstart script that attempts to create user "joeblow" with an encrypted password. The user is created okay, but the password does not seem to "take". After installation is complete, and the system is rebooted, this is the relevant portion of /etc/passwd:
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This is the relevant portion of /etc/shadow:
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Where there are two exclamation points, I would expect the encrypted password (as is the case for the root user, which is also created in the kickstart file).
The relevant line in my kickstart file looks like this:
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That password string, which is 34 characters, is the word "password", encrypted with this command:
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Also in my kickstart file is this line:
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After the install is complete, I reboot and attempt to log in as "joeblow", but no dice. If I log in as root, and manually put the above encrypted password into /etc/shadow for jowblow, I can then log in as joeblow.
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Oct 6, 2010
I am using fedora 12.I have two internal drives. Both are ntfs. Whenever i click on them it prompts to enter root password. But i want to mount them as normal user without entering any root password. How can i disable it so that i am not asked to enter root password everytime i mount the drives.
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Apr 7, 2011
Is it possible to have a password protected ftp directory along with anonomus user access
i mean 2 say
when people visit my ftp link ie
ftp//server name
then can see all the directories like
text
stickers
word files
personal
They can acess all the directories and can see contents but when they go to my personal directory they should be prompted for a password.
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Jun 18, 2011
My bose ask me to convert a CentOS system password like "LMPQSMTE0nHlQ" to postfix MySQL MD5 Hased password, I find CentOS seems has 2 kinds of password form, one is shorter and the other is very long like"$1$C2MSk16n$WT5JWnzYH7XpCCjsiE2bd1", however I find postfix is exactly the later long one, so does any one know how to convert the short form to the later one
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Apr 25, 2010
i've installed directory server in a fedora 12 box, i got it running and i can access it using coldfusion to manage users and groups.i hit a snag when creating a user, this because coldfusion cannot generate a password, the directory server needs a certificate and a ssl connection.so i started googling for a way to generate and install a certificate on the server itself and in the directory.s is my administration server and directory(it's novabase directory) not the other one.
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Jan 6, 2009
At the RHEL prompt, I entered the standard user's username/password combo. Linux displays a message box stating:"Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator."Next, I entered "root" in the username field and entered the root password (which expired also--keep in mind that passwords are set to expire after x days). Linux displays a message box stating:"You are required to change your password immediately (password aged)."When prompted to "Enter current UNIX password", I entered the new password (was that the right thing to do?); Linux displays a message box stating:"The change of the authentication token failed. Please try again later or contact the system administrator."I rebooted the system and got into command line mode; somehow I logged in as "root" (don't know exactly how, but needed to change the password there). At the "#" prompt, I type "passwd root"; Linux displays the message "Changing password for user root", followed by the message "passwd: Authentication information cannot be recovered.
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Feb 2, 2010
I want to add 50 new users, not on the server yet I want to add them all to group Accounting - with 1 option, not user by user I want to setup a default password for them all, and have it say something like 'You must now change password or no access will be permitted' Any other options I also want to do once, not for each user?
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