Or boot in single user<br>type passwd and done.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/22 Jim Dickenson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dickenson@cfmc.com">dickenson@cfmc.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 12px;">What I have done in the past to set the password for root is to boot in rescue mode and edit /etc/shadow setting the password to some know value from another system.<br>
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<hr size="3" width="95%" align="center"><b>From: </b>"David @ULC" <<a href="mailto:ucoms2001@gmail.com" target="_blank">ucoms2001@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <<a href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:22:08 +0530<br>
<b>To: </b><<a href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[asterisk-users] Root Password not taking<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
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In one of my center , its not taking root password. <br>
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Anyways to recover it ? <br>
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In other terms , I lost the control of server. <br>
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Any solution or re-installation is the only way left ?<br>
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I am using CentOS.<br>
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