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InsightIQ root password
hello guys..
can some one help me how to recover the root password , while deploying the insightIQ VM i might changed it but couldn't recalled it now.
i am able to login with "administrator" so is there anyway i can recover that ? bec i have a requirement to create a new user on this VM with root access.
dynamox
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May 29th, 2013 17:00
Now just enter passwd and enter new password for root
Raj_la
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May 29th, 2013 16:00
cool ...i didn't thought of sudo but bottom line sudo to root is working. so is this the only way to get root access ?? is there any way to recover root password ?
dynamox
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May 29th, 2013 16:00
did you try to ssh into the VM and then "sudo su -" ..type administrator password
Raj_la
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May 29th, 2013 20:00
it works like a charm..thanks dynamox.
Anonymous
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June 24th, 2013 08:00
Hi,
it gives me following error , can you please help me out
administrator@isilon-insightiq:~$ sudo su -
[sudo] password for administrator:
root@isilon-insightiq:~#
root@isilon-insightiq:~#
root@isilon-insightiq:~#
root@isilon-insightiq:~#
root@isilon-insightiq:~# passwd
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
passwd: password unchanged
cincystorage
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June 24th, 2013 20:00
Sounds like you have the filesystem mounted read-only... Are you in single user mode or something?