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[Michael R. Head]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 16:08 +0000, Tony Arnold wrote:
> 
> 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.

Since he's set a root password, he'll have to enter it before he will
get to single user mode. Since he's forgotten his root password,
recovery mode won't help.

> Regards,
> Tony.
> -- 
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Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
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