Oracle Linux root password

Hello,
I installed Virtual Box and the pre built java development VM (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/javadev-vm-192138.html). However I am not sure what the default password for root is. I can sign in as the glassfish user as in the documentation, but this user is not able to create directories. How do I reset the root password or does anyone know what the default root password is.
Thanks
Mike

HI:
Tip 1) try ovsroot as password... in the Oracle VM templates this is commonly used.
Tip 2) do some documentation reading...
Tip 3) If 1 & 2 are not working hack your box :-)
- reboot your machine, go into the grub menu and add a 1 after your startup line. This will make sure you will go to runlevel 1 when you boot. Now you can change your root password.
You can find lots of manuals on how to do this... please find one example here: http://www.labtestproject.com/linuse/change_root_password.html
regards,
Johan Louwers

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I am having a problem to login as root user this is what i got:
[oracle@localhost ~]$ su
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su: incorrect password
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su: incorrect password
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If you have success experience on this, please kindly help to share to me.
Please kindly give some advise for this.
Thank in advance,
Best regards,
Heng
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Edited by: user9032138 on Nov 4, 2011 10:03 PM

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How to increase the screen resolution of oracle linux 4 in vmware?

I have installed Oracle Linux Release 4 Update 8 for x86 (32 Bit) - DVD V16749-01 on vmaware for running oracle database 10g xe on my laptop. But its screen resolution is not greater than 800x600, (800x600 very small for my laptop which have 1366x768 screen resolution). Please provide any plugin or software that can increase the resolution of oracle linux 4 in vmare.
my laptop: hp pavilion dm4 1222tx , O.S. windows 7 (home basic) 64 bit.
thanks in advance.

You will need to extract the contents of the compressed tar.gz archive and run the vmware-install.pl perl script as sudo or root.
- Open Terminal from the Applications/System Tools Menu inside the Guest OS
- Type "su -" and enter the password for root
- Type "cd /etc/yum.repos.d"
- Type "wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-el4.repo"
- Edit public-yum-el4.repo and set enabled=1 of the corresponding section matching your OEL version.
- Install additional software packages typing "yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel gcc"
- Select Install/Upgrade VMware Tools from the VM/Guest menu
- Type "cd /media/cdrom"
- Type "tar -C /tmp -zxvf /media/cdrom/VMwareTools-8.8.2-590212.tar.gz"
- Type "cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib"
- Type "./vmware-install.pl"

Installing Oracle Linux 6 For 11g

I'm downloading Oracle Linux 6,2 64-bit with the single intention to simply install Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition and I've never used or installed Oracle Linux before. I know that in order to install Oracle 11g database, I will need to have some kind of graphic utility like X but I do not need a Desktop Environment like Gnome or KDE (which is not permitted on servers per company policy). Can someone tell me what exactly or which specific options I will need to minimally install Oracle database 11g? I don't want to install the entire DVD content to my server but rather know what packages are required and ONLY install those. I don't know if the Linux installer has a fairly self explanatory / easy to use options based on me using this system as a database server but if anyone can please help, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Sorry everyone but I've retured back from vacation to focus back on getting Oracle Database 11.2.0.3 installed on Oracle Linux 6.2 64-bit. I've got the O.S. up and I thought I selected all the correct / required packages to perform the standard installation using the Universal Installer but it's not working for some reason. I'm unable to forward my 'xclock' session from the database server host to my workstation (Ubuntu 12.04 Linux). When I open a terminal window on my Ubuntu Linux machine and type 'xclock', the application opens w/o any issues. When I SSH into my Oracle database server and attempt to forward the X11 session over to my machine, I get:
carlos@ghost:~$ ssh -x carlos@oracledb
carlos@oracledb's password:
[carlos@oracledb ~]$ xclock
Error: Can't open display:
[carlos@oracledb ~]$ logout
Connection to oracledb closed.I obviously have the application 'xclock' and all required dependencies installed but for some reason it doesn't forward from my Oracle server to my workstation so that I can start the installation...
Below is a list of all installed packages on Oracle Linux that have 'xorg-x11*' in their package header name:
[root@oracledb ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i "xorg-x11*"
xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.0.14-13.el6_2.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-v4l-0.2.0-4.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-savage-2.3.2-1.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-i740-1.3.2-2.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-sisusb-0.9.4-1.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-acecad-1.5.0-3.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-xkb-utils-7.4-6.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-apps-7.4-10.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.2.904-4.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-penmount-1.5.0-2.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-13.20110719gitde9d1ba.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.14.2-7.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-mouse-1.7.0-4.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-fpit-1.4.0-2.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drivers-7.3-13.3.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.9-13.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.5-5.2.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-xauth-1.0.2-7.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-utils-7.4-8.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-ati-firmware-6.14.2-7.el6.noarch
xorg-x11-server-common-1.10.4-6.el6_2.3.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.10.4-6.el6_2.3.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-r128-6.8.1-3.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-vmware-11.0.3-1.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-i128-1.3.4-1.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-trident-1.3.4-1.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-glint-1.2.5-1.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-apm-1.2.3-2.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-ast-0.91.10-1.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-siliconmotion-1.7.5-1.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-dummy-0.3.4-1.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-wacom-0.10.5-14.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-sis-0.10.3-1.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.6.0-2.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.4.1-3.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.16.0-1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-mga-1.4.13-3.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-cirrus-1.3.2-2.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-mutouch-1.3.0-2.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-hyperpen-1.4.1-2.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-fbdev-0.4.2-2.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-12.7.0-1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-keyboard-1.6.0-1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-vesa-2.3.0-2.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-tdfx-1.4.3-2.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-rendition-4.2.4-1.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-mach64-6.9.0-1.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-voodoo-1.2.4-1.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-s3virge-1.10.4-2.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-xgi-1.6.0-11.0.1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-font-utils-7.2-11.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-void-1.4.0-1.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-aiptek-1.4.1-2.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.18-2.el6.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-elographics-1.3.0-2.el6.x86_64

VNC on Oracle Linux 6.3

Hi,
I have just installed Oracle Linux 6.3 and I have noticed there is vncserver located in /usr/bin.
So I start the vncserver using
cd /usr/bin
./vncserver
I am prompted for a password, which I supply. An authority file /root/.Xauthority is created
A new desktop is created ( lab1.nms:1 )
A default startup script /root/.vnc/xstarup is created and the application is started
On my server I can now see the vncserver processes
root      2501     1 0 15:19 pts/1    00:00:00 ./Xvnc :1 -desktop lab1.nms:1 (root) -auth /root/.Xauthority -geometry 1024x768 -rfbwait 30000 -rfbauth /root/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5901 -fp catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d –pn
However when I launch my VNC viewer ( Real VNC 5.0.3 for Windows ) on my remot windows client and provide the connection as lab1.nms:1 ( which is in my local hosts file on my remote client ) I simply get a timeout
There is no firewall between my client and server ( I am able to ssh, sftp, ping etc )
Any ideas of what is wrong ? Do I need to do some further config in VNC ?
Jim

Add /etc/hosts entries in the following format - IP    FQDN   hostname
Edit /etc/sysconfig/vncservers as follows:
     VNCSERVERS="1:<username>"
     VNCSERVERARGS[1]="-geometry 1280x1024"
# server vncserver start
# server iptables stop
# chkconfig iptables off
# chkconfig vncserver on
Login to your VNC server as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1

Reset guest root password

Hi All,
I've saved a 2.2.2 guest into a template, imported that into 3.0.2 and created a guest using it. VM starts up fine but can't remember the password for root (this was a once off where we changed the root password so a vendor could access it as root and forgot to change it back).
So I wanted to boot the guest from a System Rescue CD off the network via ftp after mounting the iso. Well, that didn't work out too well:
Error: Boot loader didn't return any data!
Tried changing the path to various folders in the mounted iso to no avail. Tried a Fedora 15 live cd as well but same problem. So I'm thinking unlike the Oracle Linux iso's, other distributions are not so straight forward when trying to boot from them off the network (http/ftp etc).
Is there a way to boot a PVM guest off the network to iso's other than Oracle Linux? Or perhaps another way to reset the root password for this guest?
Thanks.

831583 wrote:
Is there a way to boot a PVM guest off the network to iso's other than Oracle Linux? Or perhaps another way to reset the root password for this guest?You can't boot any PVM guest from an ISO file. You can however login to Dom0, and boot the guest using xm create -c /path/to/vm.cfg -- this will throw up the GRUB menu so you can add the "single" kernel boot parameter and change the root password in single-user mode.
Alternatively, you could boot from a Network Location using the kernel and ramdisk options. Just depends on which distribution you're using.

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