Forgotten root password

[dantheman120]

Hi,
I'm running linux kernel on mobile arm platform. Using uboot/ubl to boot. Managed to loose root password.

Anyone know the best way to recover it?

Only access to the device is through dropbear and the uboot environment.

Thanks

[WarheadsSE]

if your uboot supports tftp, then I'd say tftp a kernel & initramfs with the tools needed to edit it on the device.

[dantheman120]

I managed to sort it out another way:
Hell and I thought Linux was mean't to be secure!

Uboot passes a whole lot of parameters to the kernel before it boots. These are stored under the bootargs varible. You simply need to append "init=/bin/sh" (or path to the shell you are using) to the end of these arguments for the kernel to boot straight into the shell. You can then set password as normal (passwd)

[WarheadsSE]

Why do you think that people keep the servers under lock, key, cage and camera?