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.
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8 comments:

  1. Anonymous22 May 2017 at 16:45

    thumbs up! ty

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  2. Unknown30 August 2017 at 19:50

    Thanks a lot, this help me to resolve the problem with forgotten password.

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  3. Unknown20 October 2017 at 05:24

    Tried this but the new root password did not take.

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  4. Unknown20 October 2017 at 05:25

    Tried this and after the reboot, the root password would not take. Said it was invalid.

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  5. Unknown22 September 2018 at 08:43

    How do i bypass when i dont no login or password

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  6. MC Daniel18 December 2018 at 16:25

    It works for me :)

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  7. Anonymous22 March 2019 at 23:36

    Thank you so much from México friend.

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  8. Anonymous16 January 2020 at 02:37

    Thank you so much, it works.

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