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Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 05:00:50 +1000
From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To: Rob Garbutt <rob@webstyleinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: root password recovery
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I'm not sure how this is a hardware problem.

On Mon, 2006-May-29 18:48:54 +0100, Rob Garbutt wrote:
>Can anyone point me in the right direction of either recovering/resetting 
>the root password (console or through bash) or fixing the above error?

Assuming you have the console marked "secure" in /etc/ttys, you can
just boot to single-user.  This will give you a root shell:
- boot single user
# mount -a
# passwd

-- 
Peter Jeremy