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From: Michael Haro <perl@netmug.org>
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Subject: Re: root password
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Just boot with the -s flag
That will send the system into single user mode.
Then you can 
mount -u /
passwd root

Michael

On Thu, 5 Feb 1998 system@mail.haitang.com.cn wrote:

> Hi,
>   May I reboot system from boot disk and change root password, if I forgot
> my root password.
> 
>  Sincerely
>  XU
>  02/05/98
>  system@mail.haitang.com.cn
>