Check Point - Crossbeam C25 - COS - Recover Root Password

To reset root password of Crossbeam C25, boot into single user mode from GRUB.

• Reboot the system, and when you are at the selection prompt, and press 'e'.

• You will be taken to another screen where you should select the entry that begins with 'kernel' and press 'e' again.

GRUB  version 0.91  (636K lower / 2094976K upper memory)
Distribution 1
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| root (hd0,0)                                                            | 
| kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-21.ELcp_smp ro root=/dev/md5 console=ttyS0,9600n |
| initrd /initrd-2.4.21-21.ELcp_smp.img 
|                                                                         |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Use the ^ and v keys to select which entry is highlighted.
Press 'b' to boot, 'e' to edit the selected command in the
boot sequence, 'c' for a command-line, 'o' to open a new line after ('O' for before) the selected line, 'd' to remove the selected line, or escape to go back to the main menu.

• Append ' single' to the end of that line (without the quotes). Make sure that there is a space between what's there and 'single'.

•  Press 'b' to boot into Single User Mode.

• Once the system finishes booting, you will be logged in as root. Use passwd and choose a new password for root.

• Type reboot to reboot the system, and you can login with the new password you just selected.