[clug-talk] Forgotten root passwords
Unleashed
unleashed at unleashedgamers.com
Thu Dec 2 10:47:35 PST 2004
> Assuming you have physical access to the box (or at least access to the
> boot loader at boot time, possibly by a serial port or something), you
> can get around the root password by doing the following:
>
> Pass the following parameter to the kernel at boot time: init=/bin/bash
> How you do this depends on your bootloader and is beyond the scope of
> this discussion.
How would you do this with lilo?
Travis R.
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