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LInux Login Password
Name: SuperDUke Date: July 25, 2002 at 09:21:38 Pacific
Comment:
I am using Linux redhat 7.2 and i lost my username and password is there anyway i can retrieve it?
No. Passwords can only be changed, never retrieved. If it's a user account password, log in as root and use the passwd command. If it's the root password, you gotta use a rescue disk or boot with "init=/bin/sh" or something like that, then use the passwd command to set a new password.
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Response Number 2
Name: superduke Date: July 25, 2002 at 20:27:27 Pacific
Reply:
then guess i have to formate and reinstall it again.. and have to wait hours and hours for the installation..
No way at all to retrive the password and username? using some hacking tools or some boot type of bootdisk?
or any default password which clears all configured password?
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