Username and password, help!

s10237 · #1 15th February 2005, 11:52 PM

When I installed Fedora Core. I neglected to set an username and password. Eventhough it strongly recommended it. Now when I boot up I get the username and password screen. Any ideas or suggestions on how to get past this? Thanks in advance, s10237

ghenry · #2 15th February 2005, 11:58 PM

http://fedoranews.org/ghenry/grub/

s10237 · #3 16th February 2005, 12:00 AM

Thanks a heap.

ghenry · #4 16th February 2005, 12:12 AM

I write them for myself too, so when I forget, I know where to look

Void Main · #5 16th February 2005, 01:02 AM

So your supposed to store the grub passwords in a safe? What happens if you forget the safe combination? Maybe you should put the safe combination in another safe. But what happens if you forget the combination to that safe? Maybe it's then time to get out the torch. I guess that means it is possible to gain root on a Linux box with a blow torch.

Of course I would just boot from alternate media and mount the drive (move the drives to another machine if necessary) and wipe the root password from /etc/shadow. Sorry, just trying to be funny.