[linux-help] Re: root password

[Bruce Bales <bbales@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Many thanks, Jon.  It wasn't as easy as I thought when I read your message, but 
I'm up
again.
bruce

Jonathan Hall wrote:

> Boot from a rescue disk (as though you were going to do a fresh install, for
> instance), mount the hard disk, edit /etc/passwd, remove the root password.
>
> Then reboot again normally, log in as root (it shouldn't even ask you for a
> password), then run 'passwd' to set your password agian.
>
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 07:21:30PM -0500, Bruce Bales wrote:
> > When I got back from vacation, my root password no longer works.  Maybe I 
> > just forgot
> > it.  Is there any way, short of reloading Mandrake 7.1, to retrieve or 
> > change the
> > root password.
> >
> > Stupid Bruce
> >
> >
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