<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Bruno Wolff III <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruno@wolff.to">bruno@wolff.to</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 07:43:37 +0530,<br>
Amit Rp <<a href="mailto:amitrp01@gmail.com">amitrp01@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I forgot the root password. Please advise whether there is any possibility<br>
> of retrieving it?<br>
<br>
</div></div>It's normally easier to boot into single user mode and change it to something<br>
new than to try to recover it.<br>
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<div><br></div><div>Boris. </div></div><br>