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This will work only if you don't have any boot passwd.

pradeepchhetri
– pradeepchhetri

2012-04-07 06:33:32 +00:00
Commented Apr 7, 2012 at 6:33
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And if you're not using /sbin/sulogin for single-user shell (it will prompt for root's password).

James O'Gorman
– James O'Gorman

2012-04-07 09:52:37 +00:00
Commented Apr 7, 2012 at 9:52
If you can get to the file system you can edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to remove the bootloader password and /etc/inittab to change the single-user shell to something like /bin/sh (cc @pradeepchhetri)

NullUser
– NullUser

2015-12-08 16:49:18 +00:00
Commented Dec 8, 2015 at 16:49

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