[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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