Re: Forgot my ROOT PASSWORD...

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From: Thomas Nowak
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 00:00

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darner wrote:
> 
> Tux wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Do I have to reinstall Linux if I forgot my root password, or is there
> > some way to get back into the system without doing this...???
> >
> > Thanks..
> 
> If you start it with linux 1 at the LILO prompt there is a way to change
> the root password

This differnce from distribution to distribution. That works is:
starting linux with init=/bin/bash at the lilo-prompt. after booting you have a
root shell, but your root device is read only, so you must involke the command:

mount -o remount,rw /

and than a mount -a

now you can change your password !

Bye 

Thomas

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From: Thomas Nowak <nowak@chemie.uni-halle.de>
Subject: Re: Forgot my ROOT PASSWORD...
Date: 2000/05/23
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