Saturday 9 May 2015

How to reset IPCop root password

Follow the below steps: -

1. At the boot menu, press <TAB> to drop into edit mode
2. At the end of the line add: init=/bin/bash
3. Press <ENTER> to continue boot
4. When booting has finised enter: mount -o remount rw /
5. Enter: passwd
6. eEter the new password
7. Repeat the new password
8. Restart IPCop (ipcopreboot does not work and we neither have init nor reboot ...) Use Clt+Alt+Del
9. That's it.