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[Tony Arnold]

Michael R. Head wrote:
> 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.

There should already be a recovery mode in your grub menu which will
drop you into root. You may need to hit escape to see the grub menu.

Regards,
Tony.
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