[Gllug] I have forgotten my root password, I am a muppet.

[robin.c.smith at bt.com]

>From memory, I thought with lilo you could supply the argument "single" to
the boot command so that
it boots up in single user mode and logs in without a password.

Robin

I'll check this tonight

-----Original Message-----
From: will [mailto:will at hellacool.co.uk]
Sent: 05 September 2001 10:14
To: gllug
Subject: Re: [Gllug] I have forgotten my root password, I am a muppet.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Cheetham" <jim at gonzul.net>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] I have forgotten my root password, I am a muppet.


> Boot from tomsrtbt, mount your disk's / partition on /mnt, go in there
> and edit the passwd/shadow file to remove the password for root.

I don't believe you, that is too easy :-)

Thanks I will give it a go tonight.

Will.


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