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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: Ivan on January 22, 2004, 12:59:19 AM

Title: password recovery
Post by: Ivan on January 22, 2004, 12:59:19 AM

This may be an unusual request.
over a year ago I moved my webisite to an hosting service. It use to be on my own pc.
Now I still have that pc (hd to be exact). Got it running, but I forgot root password.
I have a quite a few files that I have to get off of it, including one mysql database.
Any help, suggestions & links are welcome.
Thak you in advance!

Title: password recovery
Post by: Boris on January 22, 2004, 02:04:09 AM

Where is how-to for password recovery. It basicaly requires you to restart the server in the single user mode and use "passwd" command to set the new root password.
Press Control+X on the logo screen and then TAB to see the list of the boot labels. Select one and add "single" parametr to it like this:

boot: Mitel-SME singe

after it booted to # prompt type passwd and change root's password.

Title: password recovery
Post by: RavenIV on January 24, 2004, 04:31:42 AM

if you are a bit confirmed with linux you can do it with a linux-bootdisk.
boot from floppy, mount /dev/hda1, change /etc/passwd and the contribs for it.
reboot your machine from harddisk and type the new root-password.

cheers klaus