[afnog] afnog Digest, Vol 70, Issue 5:Fedora Root Pssword Reset
Oscar Otiende Rombo
ORombo at Safaricom.co.ke
Tue Jan 5 12:03:45 UTC 2010
Hosea,
I have done it (reset root password) on Fedora 11 from GRUB. Kindly
append 'single' and not 'linux single'. This should take you to the root
user prompt in single user mode.
Regards,
Oscar.
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Today's Topics:
1. Nagios: localhost/nagios not responding (Benjamin Cobblah)
2. Nagios: localhost/nagios not responding (Benjamin Cobblah)
3. Re: Nagios: localhost/nagios not responding (Hervey Allen)
4. Re: Nagios: localhost/nagios not responding (Richard Zulu)
5. Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen
(Hosea Phiri)
6. Re: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen
(Noah Sematimba)
7. Fwd: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen
(Bruce Zamaere)
8. NDOutils addon (Richard Zulu)
9. Re: Fwd: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB
Screen (Hosea Phiri)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 07:58:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Benjamin Cobblah <cbnayai at yahoo.co.uk>
To: afnog <afnog at afnog.org>
Subject: [afnog] Nagios: localhost/nagios not responding
Message-ID: <509184.42533.qm at web25003.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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Hello Folks,
Anybody with nagios know-how? I installed nagios 3.2.0 in a debian
system without any problems. I run the web interface localhost/nagios
and keep getting /nagios not found on the server.
Can anybody help
Benjamin
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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 17:24:24 +0000 (GMT)
From: Benjamin Cobblah <cbnayai at yahoo.co.uk>
To: afnog <afnog at afnog.org>
Subject: [afnog] Nagios: localhost/nagios not responding
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Hello Folks,
Anybody with nagios know-how? I installed nagios 3.2.0 in a debian
system without any problems. I run the web interface localhost/nagios
and keep getting /nagios not found on the server.
In the log file i get the following service alert:
Warning: Return code of 127 for check of host 'localhost' was out of
bounds. Make sure the plugin you're trying to run actually exists.
HOST ALERT: localhost;DOWN;SOFT;1;(Return code of 127 is out of bounds -
plugin may be missing)
Can anybody help
Benjamin
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:42:34 -0300
From: Hervey Allen <hervey at nsrc.org>
To: Benjamin Cobblah <cbnayai at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: AFNOG <afnog at afnog.org>
Subject: Re: [afnog] Nagios: localhost/nagios not responding
Message-ID: <4B42369A.6020000 at nsrc.org>
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On 1/4/10 2:24 PM, Benjamin Cobblah wrote:
>
> Hello Folks,
>
> Anybody with nagios know-how? I installed nagios 3.2.0 in a debian
> system without any problems. I run the web interface localhost/nagios
> and keep getting /nagios not found on the server.
>
> In the log file i get the following service alert:
>
> Warning: Return code of 127 for check of host 'localhost' was out of
> bounds. Make sure the plugin you're trying to run actually exists.
>
> HOST ALERT: localhost;DOWN;SOFT;1;(Return code of 127 is out of bounds
-
> plugin may be missing)
>
>
> Can anybody help
>
Hello Benjamin:
Do you have "localhost" defined in /etc/hosts?
Is Apache running?
# /etc/init.d/apache2 status
or
# apache2ctl status
Cheers,
- Hervey Allen
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 09:35:55 +0300
From: Richard Zulu <richardzulu at gmail.com>
To: Hervey Allen <hervey at nsrc.org>
Cc: AFNOG <afnog at afnog.org>
Subject: Re: [afnog] Nagios: localhost/nagios not responding
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Hallo Benjamin,
This is what you have to do. Download the nagiosplugins tar archive
from the nagios website and then install it. After that restart Nagios
and you will have it running.
However, make sure apache is running on the server before starting
Nagios
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 00:50:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Hosea Phiri <phiri_hosea at yahoo.com>
To: AFNOG <afnog at afnog.org>
Subject: [afnog] Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB
Screen
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All,
I have a client who lost root password for his machine running FC 11. I
made an attempt to recover password by trying to boot in single mode. I
am familiar with editing the GRUB boot menu and appending "linux single"
to make the server boot in single mode. Unfortunately the approach looks
impossible on this machine.
The machine boots differently. I noticed one major thing that looked
different from other versions of Fedora I have used before. It does not
bring up the Grub menu. It does not even show the services startup. It
goes straight into login prompt bypassing all other stages which I guess
run from background.
Any I dea?
I am told this has just started after loss of this password. Looking
forward to your usual useful tips.
Hosea
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 12:14:03 +0300
From: Noah Sematimba <ksemat at psg.com>
To: Hosea Phiri <phiri_hosea at yahoo.com>
Cc: AFNOG <afnog at afnog.org>
Subject: Re: [afnog] Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB
Screen
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On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Hosea Phiri wrote:
>
>
> All,
>
> I have a client who lost root password for his machine running FC
> 11. I made an attempt to recover password by trying to boot in
> single mode. I am familiar with editing the GRUB boot menu and
> appending "linux single" to make the server boot in single mode.
> Unfortunately the approach looks impossible on this machine.
>
> The machine boots differently. I noticed one major thing that looked
> different from other versions of Fedora I have used before. It does
> not bring up the Grub menu. It does not even show the services
> startup. It goes straight into login prompt bypassing all other
> stages which I guess run from background.
>
> Any I dea?
> I haven't used Fedora in a good number of years but you should be
> able to boot off a rescue CD, mount the root partition and edit the
> shadow file directly removing the encrypted password and thus
> allowing you to boot the main system and login without a password.
> Noah.
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 12:30:06 +0200
From: Bruce Zamaere <bzamaere at gmail.com>
To: afnog <afnog at afnog.org>
Subject: [afnog] Fwd: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB
Screen
Message-ID:
<fec57a0c1001050230j502146ecq79c87fcb295b3c82 at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hosea,
Sorry sent your response to Noah. See below... should give you the grub
menu. (fingers crossed).
/Bruce.
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From: Bruce Zamaere <bzamaere at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [afnog] Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB
Screen
To: Noah Sematimba <ksemat at psg.com>
Hosea,
Could you try holding down the shift key during boot... I believe this
works
with the new Ubuntu's and Fedora's
regards,
/Bruce.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Noah Sematimba <ksemat at psg.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Hosea Phiri wrote:
>
>
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I have a client who lost root password for his machine running FC 11.
I
>> made an attempt to recover password by trying to boot in single mode.
I am
>> familiar with editing the GRUB boot menu and appending "linux single"
to
>> make the server boot in single mode. Unfortunately the approach looks
>> impossible on this machine.
>>
>> The machine boots differently. I noticed one major thing that looked
>> different from other versions of Fedora I have used before. It does
not
>> bring up the Grub menu. It does not even show the services startup.
It goes
>> straight into login prompt bypassing all other stages which I guess
run from
>> background.
>>
>> Any I dea?
>>
>
> I haven't used Fedora in a good number of years but you should be
able to
>> boot off a rescue CD, mount the root partition and edit the shadow
file
>> directly removing the encrypted password and thus allowing you to
boot the
>> main system and login without a password.
>>
>
> Noah.
>>
>
>
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 14:28:25 +0300
From: Richard Zulu <richardzulu at gmail.com>
To: AFNOG <afnog at afnog.org>
Subject: [afnog] NDOutils addon
Message-ID:
<c8ef8aac1001050328l22cf82c5sd21192cf015d83b6 at mail.gmail.com>
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Hallo,
Am installing the NDOUTILS addon for my nagios installing however when
compiling the NDO broker module and NDO2B daemon i run the configure
script without pointing it to the location of mysql development
libraries on my system. I did not have any then.
However, I have installed the development libraries, does anyone know
how i can point my broker module and daemon to those libraries without
going through the hassle of recompiling.
I am running ubuntu Karmic.
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 03:48:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Hosea Phiri <phiri_hosea at yahoo.com>
To: afnog <afnog at afnog.org>
Subject: Re: [afnog] Fwd: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing
GRUB Screen
Message-ID: <877599.54392.qm at web51007.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi Bruce,
Thanks for the tip, however I tried it before sending to the list and it
failed. I know it works for Fedora; I can't understand why it behaved
differently on FC11.
By the way recovering password using the installation DVD in rescue mode
worked, I have the password, but the grub issue is still oustanding.
Tips are still welcome.
Regards,
Hosea
________________________________
From: Bruce Zamaere <bzamaere at gmail.com>
To: afnog <afnog at afnog.org>
Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 12:30:06 PM
Subject: [afnog] Fwd: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB
Screen
Hosea,
Sorry sent your response to Noah. See below... should give you the grub
menu. (fingers crossed).
/Bruce.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bruce Zamaere <bzamaere at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [afnog] Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB
Screen
To: Noah Sematimba <ksemat at psg.com>
Hosea,
Could you try holding down the shift key during boot... I believe this
works with the new Ubuntu's and Fedora's
regards,
/Bruce.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Noah Sematimba <ksemat at psg.com> wrote:
>
>>On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Hosea Phiri wrote:
>
>
>
>>
>>>>All,
>>
>>>>I have a client who lost root password for his machine running FC
11. I made an attempt to recover password by trying to boot in single
mode. I am familiar with editing the GRUB boot menu and appending "linux
single" to make the server boot in single mode. Unfortunately the
approach looks impossible on this machine.
>>
>>>>The machine boots differently. I noticed one major thing that looked
different from other versions of Fedora I have used before. It does not
bring up the Grub menu. It does not even show the services startup. It
goes straight into login prompt bypassing all other stages which I guess
run from background.
>>
>>>>Any I dea?
>>
>
>>>I haven't used Fedora in a good number of years but you should be
able to boot off a rescue CD, mount the root partition and edit the
shadow file directly removing the encrypted password and thus allowing
you to boot the main system and login without a password.
>>
>
>>>Noah.
>>
>
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