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[Ana Loureiro]

Dear Sirs/Madms

I've installed in my PC (Toshiba Sattelite M30-X) the Fedora Core 5
version and, unfortunetly I've lost my Root Password. What shall I do?
Hope to earing from you.
Best regards,
Ana

[Pawel Sadowski]

On 10-10-2006, tue at 11:47 +0100, Ana Loureiro wrote:
>  Dear Sirs/Madms
>  
>  I've installed in my PC (Toshiba Sattelite M30-X) the Fedora Core 5
>  version and, unfortunetly I've lost my Root Password. What shall I do?
>  Hope to earing from you.
>  Best regards,
>  Ana 
Hi,

You can boot your system into a single-user mode and then change the
root password with the "passwd" command. You can perform it by adding
"1" on the end of the kernel's parameters line during booting your
system.

Regards,
-- 
Pawel Sadowski
Fedora Ambassador in Poland

[Rahul Sundaram]

Pawel Sadowski wrote:
>  On 10-10-2006, tue at 11:47 +0100, Ana Loureiro wrote:
> > Dear Sirs/Madms
> >
> > I've installed in my PC (Toshiba Sattelite M30-X) the Fedora Core 5
> > version and, unfortunetly I've lost my Root Password. What shall I do?
> > Hope to earing from you.
> > Best regards,
> > Ana
>  
>  Hi,
>  
>  You can boot your system into a single-user mode and then change the
>  root password with the "passwd" command. You can perform it by adding
>  "1" on the end of the kernel's parameters line during booting your
>  system.
>  
>  Regards, 
You forgot to CC the person asking the question. Done.

Rahul