[Klug-general] Changing root password

[Mike Rentell]

Yup. He knows his root password. I'll forward your suggestions. Thanks 
for the advice.

MikeR
Folkestone

Matthew House wrote:
> 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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