Red hat Linux installing on different host under same network.
Hello everyone, recently I have installed red hat on two machine one is on Mac and another is on Windows 10.
First I did the installation on Mac on Virtual box. While installing, it asked to create password for root and a user id. So I created a password for root and created a user id "ladmin".
On the Mac everything is working fine.
Next I installed the Linux OS on Windows 10 on VM ware virtual machine (both are under same network). When installing I am not sure what happen but it directly installed without giving me the option to create password for root. So the installation is done and I am at the stage where it asked for the local host Login: on terminal. Initially I wasn't sure what I need to type in there because I do not know the root password or I haven't created any user. I am not sure if there is any default root password.
So I started to play around and found that ladmin that I created on my Mac is working here. I was surprised to see it because I haven't created any user when installing on windows. So I tried the root with same password that I created in Mac host system but it did not worked.
Can you please let me know how did Linux operating system that I installed in windows able to recognize the ladmin user that I created on Mac host machine ? (is it because its under same network ?)
Should I need to reset the root password for the Linux OS that I installed on windows machine ?
Any help I really appreciate it.
Responses
What linux variant is this that you had installed? Is this enterprise version such as... RHEL 6/7 or Centos..? Normally, if u install linux such as RHEL 6.x from a standard ISO image then it would prompt for answers whenever needed including setting root password, exactly opposite of this is with kickstart where all answers gets defined in kickstart file which would be supplied on boot and that is un-attended installation mode.
You can reset root password in single user mode.. Reboot the node.. press any key when you see the counter, press 'e' on selected version, and then on kernel line hit 'e' to edit.. then hit 'space bar' and press '1' and press 'enter key' ... next hit 'b' to boot into single user mode.. At the # prompt, change root password using passwd command. In some cases, you may need to disable selinux, by setting it into permissive mode..
No, that is not a possibility.
Where you've installation in text/graphical mode, it would prompt to set root password and user creation without which it would not progress, unless there is a kickstart file with all answers provided over network. I'm not sure what could have happened in your case. you may try installing one more time and check...
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