Forgotten Password Part 2 (/usr/bin/passwd not found)

[adcworks]

Thanks for the replies yesterday.

I have 2 linux boxes running Mandrake 9. On my home machine, it is a dual Mandrake 9 / Win XP. On the work machine it is purely a Linux box.

I followed the suggestions from the pervious post, i.e

1) boot: linux init=/bin/sh
2) mount -o remount,rw /
3) /usr/bin/passwd

and resetted the root password very nicely!

I got in this morning very hopeful indeed that this would be good on the work machine. NO.

1) boot: linux init=/bin/sh
2) mount -o remount,rw /
3) /usr/bin/passwd

init: /usr/bin/passwd no such file or directory

Now the only thing I can think of is that the work machine was setup on different mount points or something. I really don't know as I am not that clued up on that. With my home machine I just set the default partitioning scheme I think.

Does anyone know if I need to mount other devices or execute the passwd from somewhere else. I tried /sbin/passwd and /bin/passwd but no luck there either.

[adcworks]

problem solved.

enter rescue mode:

chroot /mnt
passwd

easy peasy!

[wassy121]

you have /usr on a separate partition probably. Had you mounted it that would have worked too. Oh well, glad to see you got it fixed.