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Archive for November 14th, 2009

Change forgotten password of the root user at the Linux server

Posted by Kamran Agayev A. on 14th November 2009

Today I asked our SysAdmin about a password of one of the servers, but unfortunately he wasn’t able to remember (and didn’t noted it in somewhere). So I decided to crack it using the following steps. It’s documented and is written in the Linux manual :)

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/step-guide/s1-q-and-a-root-passwd.html

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