It is pretty easy when it comes to gaining root password to any Linux System as long as you have physical access.
This is how to change Fedora’s ROOT Password.
When your box starts up, You will see the GRUB screen…
What you need to do is, press the a Key instead of Enter
You will see something like the following…
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=on rhgb quiet
Add 1 at the end of that… So it looks like the following…
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=on rhgb quiet 1
This will make the box boot into Runlevel 1
You simply type
passwd
Enter the new ROOT password and reboot the machine.
Same thing goes for Any Linux System as welll… All you got to do is, add the following kernel argument…
init=/bin/bash
And then just change the password…
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Very handy, esp for modifying the loaders used in multifunction boot disks
and that’s why you always
1) lock bios
2) lock grub
Doesn’t work on rPath Linux.
It goes into maintenance mode and asks for the root password.
If you have physical access to any box all you have to do is insert a live cd, locked or not you have root access to all files on all drives.