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Cc: Polina Mnouskina <polina_mnouskina@yahoo.com>,
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Subject: Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password
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On 5/26/06, Miguel <mmiranda@123.com.sv> wrote:
> Hi, i have a similar problem, i forgot my root password and the server
> its in a remote colocation site, is there a way to recover the encrypted
> password and crackit some way, i have my normal account (which is in
> wheel group), i even know that the root's pass begings with
> MAG_"something", but i really cant remember the complete root's pass,
> rebooting in single user mode is my best bet?
>

If you are in wheel, then you should be able to "sudo su" to switch to
the root account and then "passwd root" to reset the password.

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