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From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Michael Richards <026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca>
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Subject: Re: Lost root password
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At the boot: type -s - it will boot it stand alone.

It will prompt you at some point to enter a shell name or just enter for
/bin/sh - press enter

Remount the root partition:

mount /

The type passwd root and there ya go.

On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, 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
>