Hacking RedHat Boxes

• 1) Reboot Linux and press a button to go to the grub prompt.
• 2) Edit the command line with 'e' on the first RHEL Line
• 3) Edit the middle line by pressing 'e' again and add to the same line:

init=/bin/bash

• 4) Press 'b' to boot. Make sure its the same line with 'init=/bin/bash'
• 5) Once booted to the # promt, type the following line:

mount -o remount,rw /

• 6) Then type the following to set root password:

passwd root

• 7) Once root password has been changed, type the following to flush the hard drive:

mount -o remount,ro /

• 8) Once the hard drive is flushed, type the following to sync files:

sync

• 9) Once everything is sync, then type the following to reboot:

exit

• 10) Reboot