I was given an old computer running Ubuntu but the guy that gave me the computer didn't know the user name or password. So I booted into full root shell and did ls /home and the computer responded with mskbxI then did passwd mskbxand it responded withpasswd: unknown user mskbx
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1) In the /etc/passwd file user is not available.
2) In this linux box VSFTPD is running.
I have shared keys setup on my domain, so I never type my password to login anymore.
I've forgotten my password now. This is a problem because only my user can sudo. Password authentication for root has been disabled, so without my password, I cannot do maintenance on my web server.
Is there a way to reset my password as my [now only] key-authenticated user?
Specifically, can this be done on CentOS 4?
Can someone assist me with recovering/resetting the password for Root via Single User Mode in CentOS v5? I've modified the kernel line using Single, S, and 1 but it appears that these commands are being totally ignored as the server continues with the boot process and displays the GUI logon screen. The server in question is a VM box running on ESX v3.5 U4. The person that created this VM is no longer employed here and I've exhausted everything I know regarding Single User Mode.
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Some (maybe) relevent logs:
part of syslog:
Quote:
Dec 12 01:20:58 <specific user> pulseaudio[1358]: core-util.c: Home directory /etc/timidity not ours.
Dec 12 01:20:58 <specific user> pulseaudio[1358]: lock-autospawn.c: Cannot access autospawn lock.
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just got a secondhand laptop that already has ubuntu loaded on it but ithas been registered to the previous owner can i reset to my username and password or do i have to reinstall it thanks mark
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We have followed the regular password reset methods online but the Kerberos password seems to be getting in the way. We have no idea was this password is and it seems impossible to work around. Does anybody know a way?
Were were about to gain access as the root user but cannot access other user accounts as the root user.
I've installed UBUNTU 9.10 on ( windows 7 ) when I was interested to discover Linux, now I began to understand this AWESOME system and I began to get ride of Microsoft " Windows " .. But I face a problem that when I installed It I created only one account with a password, but It's not the root, when I tried to login as root, I didn't success, It tells Failure authentication because of the wrong password, because I enter my account password which I entered when I installed the system, Now I want to know how to solve this ISSUE, how to get the root password or how to reset It
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Is there a way to bypass (and/or reset)the username/password when powering up?
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Restart
give parameters " 1"
press e
press b ...
Is it possible to reset my root password without installation CD?I have been read some that it is possible by edit LILO, but i'm just not sure yet how to do that...by click TAB first on LILO?and what parameter should i append on?Now i don't with my Slackware CD for in the next few days. Typos makes me lost root and my daily login simultaneously. If i reboot, i'll never login to my laptop-because there are only root and my login
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1- Is there any way I can reset the CMOS password through the CentOS? Or is that a thing of old motherboards where one could reset them through the OS?
2- Currently I have two hard drives installed in Raid1 (mirroring each other) through the motherboard RAID (not the through any RAID card or through CentOS). RAID was made prior to installing CentOS. So, would resetting the jumper mess up the whole RAID? I don't want trouble and I can leave without the password but it's good to know if need arises.
I have a friend that recently moved to Linux. She had started out with Ubutnu 9.04, which was giving her a lot of Issues along with being no longer supported, so I recommend Linux Mint 10 to her, since she wanted something closer to Windows. I instructed her on how to do a clean install. Linux Mint installed ok, but when she was about to set up wireless to get on the Internet, she realised that she had forgotten her password. She called her network (Belkin) for assistance to retrieve it. She was told that Linux is not really supported; however they gave her this address to access the router: 192.186.2.1 from her browser which did not work. So there was nothing further they could have done since she couldn't gain access to the router. She is currently only able to use Ethernet connection to get online.
What could she do to reset her password or gain access to the router? I didn't want to tell her to reset the modem in case it will leave her with no internet and no way to setup her router.
I forgot my root password for mysql, and after some searching I found several solutions to fix it. But none of them seem to work.I tried this article http://ubuntu.flowconsult.at/en/mysq...root-password/ with starting mysql with the --skip-grant-tables option. The problem is that nothing happens, it just hangs.Also tried the the --init-file option, that one runs fine, at least it returned to the command line. But the sql query in the file to which it point doesnt seem to do anything. The password wasn't changed to the one I specified in the sql file.Any idea what could be going on here, and how I could fix it?
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I found and the program "chntpw" in the build service, but it seems on beta status. And most information i found of it is very outdated. Has anyone used it? does it work ok on all modern windows versions (xp, vista and 7)? any other alternatives you can recomend?