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From: Jack Wenger <info@bentreality.com>
Subject: RE: Passwd (The answer)
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I got a couple of requests for the answer to losing your root password. This
will *ONLY* work on the console, and if you don't have the console locked
(which I didn't).

ctrl-alt-del
boot: -s

# /sbin/fsck -p
# /sbin/mount -a
# passwd root
# ctrl-D

It took me about 5 minutes to do this.

Again, THANK YOU to everyone for all of the timely, lucid replies.
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