Re: Forgot my ROOT PASSWORD...

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From: Arjan Drieman
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 00:00

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On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:21:17 -0230, Tux <tgjp@thezone.net> wrote:

>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...???

You can also try to type "Linux init=/bin/bash" at the lilo boot prompt.

That'll immediately give you a shell... perhaps you'll have to mount
the filesystem read-write after that:

  mount / -o remount,rw

and then you can edit the password and/or shadow file.

Don't muck around with this too much, your filesystem might not like it.

Arjan
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Date: 2000/04/14
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