TurnKey Linux Virtual Appliance Library

Recovering lost root password

pier - Mon, 2009/05/04 - 17:41

Hi everyone,

ID = root and the password I had set during 1st use is not opening webmin.

Is there a way to reset it ?

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Liraz Siri's picture

How to reset the root password

Liraz Siri - Mon, 2009/05/04 - 17:42.
You can reset the password on a TurnKey Linux system the same way you reset the root password on any Ubuntu/Debian system:

http://www.debuntu.org/recover-root-password-single-user-mode-and-grub

Other link

pier - Mon, 2009/05/04 - 22:10.
Tx for your prompt answer ;-)
Actually, this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LostPassword worked better form me, going to "The Other Way", down the page.
But you definetely set me in the right direction.
Pier

Linux reset root passwd

rishi - Thu, 2011/05/05 - 21:01.

http://reddragon-linux.blogspot.com/2011/05/linux-resetting-root-user-password.html

How to do this with Amazon

William - Sat, 2012/02/04 - 05:14.

I'm unable to ssh into my Amazon hosted Wordpress instance.

Is it possible to reset the password in this environment?

Can I download a backup/image/something and retrieve the data locally?

 

Regards,

William.

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Jeremy (aka JedMeister)'s picture

Not that I'm aware of...

Jeremy (aka JedMe... - Sat, 2012/02/04 - 06:44.

But perhaps it is...? I certainly have no idea, and a quick browse of the net suggests it may not be possible, unless of course you set up a key pair (but I'm guessing if you did that then you probably wouldn't be concerned about your root password - because you'd just login with you key and change it).

As for backup, if you set up TKLBAM then you can check your Hub acount for when the last backup was done (if enabled default is a full backup every 30 days, plus optional daily incrementals). You can then launch a new instance with this backup restored to it (via the Hub).

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