[Klug-general] Changing root password

[Matthew House]

does he know his root password? if so you should be able to log in/su  
as root and do

passwd root

or boot into single user mode and issue the same command?

Matt

On 26 Jan 2009, at 12:09, Mike Rentell wrote:

> Good morning all,
> On an entirely different topic, some months ago I convinced my  
> American
> friend to switch to Linux and he now has Mandriva 2008.1, same as me,
> but on a reasonable laptop not a desktop machine.
>
> He now wants to change his root password but does not know how to do
> that. Neither do I. Is it possible at all, either with the gui or with
> command-line entry from a konsole?
>
> MikeR
> in Folkestone
>
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