[Klug-general] Changing root password

[J D Freeman]

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On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:09:02PM +0000, 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?

Assuming you are root, passwd will change it. Same as for any user.

If you want to do password recovery, you are on a different game.

J
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