[linux-help] Re: forget root password
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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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