[Klug-general] Changing root password

[Twigathy]

You can hit "e" to edit a line in the grub menu while the machine is
booting - that is provided you've not passworded off grub and
forgotton that password too... =)

T

2009/1/26 J D Freeman <klug at quixotic.org.uk>:
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> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 02:28:16PM +0000, George Prowse wrote:
>> 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
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> Except you need to be root to edit the grub config...
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> J
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