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Mon Feb 19 16:02:52 UTC 2007

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 09:52 -0600, Dave Grundgeiger wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I think I may have forgotten the superuser password. Is there nothing I can 
> do short of reinstalling? (I know that the answer better be no, but I 
> thought I'd ask anyway.)

Can't you just do "sudo passwd" and reset it?

It should also be possible to make a grub line that drops you into a
shell on startup, or use a LiveCD to boot to a root shell in single user
mode. I'll leave that for someone else to describe.

> Thanks!
> 
> Dave 
> 
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
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