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re: forgot my password



> Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, hagit wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >> Please don't laugh at me:
> >> How do I login to my Linux mail server, if I forgot my password ?
> >> Hagit
> >> 
> > 
> > reboot. at LILO prompt type "linux single" to boot into single user mode
> > (assuming your boot label is "linux"). The machine should boot and give
> > you a bash shell on the console. Type "passwd root" or "passwd hagit" or
> > whatever. Then reboot regularly and log in.
> > Regards,
> > 
> >  - yba
> 
> 
> In case the computer will prompt you to issue root password or to hit 
> ctl-D to continue, you will have to switch to
> MaV's method. That behaviour, which is standard on Debian Linux and is 
> not on RedHat and Mandrake, means
> that you have sulogin program installed and set up. sulogin ensures that 
> root account can not be used without
> proper permission.
> 



1) I can not see how this sulogin achieves this goal. After all, can not 
anyone issue
	init=/bin/sh
at the boot prompt and do whatever he likes with the root account? so what 
this sulogin is good for?

2) What good will it make to issue 
	passwd user_name
when the user forgot his passwd? Does passwd have different behavior when run 
in single mode? Or am I completely confusing things?


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