[linux-help] Re: forget root password

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Koji Hayakawa
>
> Single user mode won't guarantee the fix for the password problem,
> especially if you are really security conscious and set password for single
> user mode as well.  Otherwise, most distros I know don't set password to
> single user mode by default, so it's easy to get superuser access to the
> machine once you get the physical access to the machine.  Then it's matter
> of issuing passwd and set new one up.
>

Debian by default requires a root password to boot to single user mode. However
you could always use an install disk and mount your /root partition and then go
in and edit the password/shadow file manually to set root to a blank password.
Then reboot and use the passwd utility to set the root password.

--dwh

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