Or, if you have a lot of time, you can look i to "jack the ripper" . I had similar situation earlier this month (forgot my pass). Full dosclosure- After 5hours of reading and configuring it to crack my pass, i gave up and reset it(pass). On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 10:35 Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 10:49:48AM +0200, Elio Fabri wrote: > > Hi all, > > I need help (at lest a link) as to how to recover my root password. > > I'm using SL6.2. The password I remember by heart is no longer > > accepted, neither for the su command nor for sudo. > > Thx > > While you cannot "recover" the root password, if you have physical access > to the machine, you can bypass it, login as root and reset the password: > remove the boot disk from problem machine, attach it to a 2nd computer, > mount the root partition, go to root/.ssh and install your ssh key. > unmount, > reassemble problem computer, boot, ssh into root, done. While the boot disk > is mounted on the 2nd computer, in addition to installing the ssh key, > you can also reset the password (edit /etc/shadow) or setup "sudo" for > password-less "sudo root" (recent Ubuntu are setup this way, you never > actually > use the root password to login into root). > > -- > Konstantin Olchanski > Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! > Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca > Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada >