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

[Jim Cheetham]

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.


On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:56:54AM +0100, will wrote:
> Hello again.
> 
> As the subject line implies I have forgotten the root password to an old 486
> box that I was playing around with at home.  It is a fresh install of
> mandrake 7.1 and it is just that the usernames/passwords are different to
> the ones I entered on install (I had had a few beers, that might have
> something to do with it).  I managed to get in using a user account but this
> has no priveliges to do anything outside it's home directory.  I have a
> tomsrtbt disk and have booted up using that, but don't know what the hell to
> do next.  It has a scsi HD (sda1) which I have managed to mount and CDROM
> (dunno) which I havent after booting of tomsrtbt.
> 
> help.
> 
> I want to re-install linux on the box but haven't got a clue how to go about
> it under the current circumstances.  I don't seem to be able to do anything
> without root priveleges.  Oh, and to make matters more interesting, the
> motherboard/bios does not support booting from CDROM :-)
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Will.
> 
> 
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