Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Regaining root's password

1) Boot from a cd-rom or a bootable Tape.

2) Press F5 or 5.

3) Select option 3 from installation and maintanance menu: Start maintanance menu for system recovery.

4) Follow the option to activate the root vg and obtain the shell.

5) Once a shell is available then run the passwd command to reset the password for root.

6) sync

7) Reboot the system.

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