[Klug-general] Changing root password

[George Prowse]

J D Freeman wrote:
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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.
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>> 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?
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> Assuming you are root, passwd will change it. Same as for any user.
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> If you want to do password recovery, you are on a different game.
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> J

If you can't remember the root password just edit grub with "1" at the 
end of the kernel line, that will boot you into single user mode