Worst Case Senario #1 – Root Password Recovery

by mboulou on June 26, 2009

Imagine that :

  • You have just wake up
  • Your mobile is ringing…
  • One of your biggest clients calls
  • One Server has halted
  • About 200 mail accounts has been de-activated

Now imagine that you have misspell the root password ( after passwd without coffee )

What to do?

Logging from Console and when Linux starts enter the following

init=/bin/bash

And just type passwd again

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