new install and lost my root password (I know - ID 10 T)

Ben Steeves bcs at metacon.ca
Mon Apr 19 19:26:40 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 16:25, Matthew Benjamin wrote:
> Does anyone know how to recover from a forgotten root password on
> Fedora? I know how to do it on linux versions with lilo, however I am
> booitng with GRUB and when going into Command line mode there is no
> passwd command available.

Boot into single-user mode... "A 1 <enter>" when the proper Kernel
selection is highlighted in GRUB.  

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