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Title: Lost Admin Password
Post by: Craig McLean on January 20, 2002, 12:16:34 AM

Hello.  I'm trying to recover the admin password on an e-smith 4.1 machine.  I was able to use a rescue disk to get in and remove the root password.  I then rebooted and logged on because root no longer had a password, I used the passwd command from the console to change the root password back to something a little stronger.  However we still don't know what the admin password is, for things like web admin and stuff.  I know that normally the root and admin password are one an the same.  However I can't figure out how to get them back into synch.  Is there away to do this or am I hooped.

Title: Re: Lost Admin Password
Post by: Grub on January 21, 2002, 12:35:27 AM

You have to run in single mode (service single start). After that you can type passwd to change it.