forgotten root passwords

Tomasz Ciolek tmc at goldweb.com.au
Sun Aug 19 23:07:11 EST 2001


iThe best way to fix this is to boot the machine with a distro disk. The mount he root partition of the linux install and change/remove the passord.

Also if you have sudo set up you might be able to chnage it with:

	sudo passwd root

regards
Tomasz Ciolek

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