[linux-help] Re: forget root password

[Abdul Basit <basit@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

man just boot in single user mode
by using 1 in lilo or loadlin
lilo: linux 1
and issue passwd to change your root password
reboot and boot normal
now you should have working root.

redhat doesn't have special security over
password in single user mode

basit

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On Sat, 19 May 2001, j m wagle wrote:

> 
> well, I tried to 'recover' my root password and I still cannot access it..
> I am running RedHat 6, i replaced :LS1...: with : : (then ::) and I still get
> "incorrect password".
> 
> any ideas?  by the way,  the time stamp on my passwd (and passwd-) files were 
> set
> during a time my daughter was "having trouble" playing a game on the 
> internet....
> 
> it is a great life, if you don't weaken.
> 
> mike wagle, wichita, ks
> 
> Dale W Hodge wrote:
> 
> > <snip>
> 
> > Then reboot and use the passwd utility to set the root password.
> >
> > --dwh
> 
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