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From: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: Lost or Corrupted Root Password
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At 07:29 20/04/98 -0700, Curtis wrote:

>Is there anything that can be done, when after using the CHPASS command
>on a user, the root password has been changed.  I don't have a clue as
>to how it happened.  I was using it on another userid.  Any help would
>be appreciated.

Reboot into single-user mode, by typing

-s

at the boot prompt. You can then change the root password. Or, if you are
running sudo as well, you could change it that way.

Regards,

d.

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