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From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
To: (Michael Richards) <026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca>
Subject: RE: Lost root password
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Boot into single user (-s at Boot; prompt).  Use /stand/sysinstall or passwd to 
change the root password to something you will remember. ;)

Patrick


On 16-Oct-97 Michael Richards wrote:
>Hmmm. I seem to have mistaken my root password when I changed it... 
>Now how do I get root again from the console? Fortunately/unfortunately it
>does not appear as simple as:
>lilo init=/bin/base rw
>
>:)
>
>thanks
>-Mike