root password

[Boris Epstein]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 07:43:37 +0530,
>  Amit Rp <amitrp01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I forgot the root password. Please advise whether there is any
> possibility
> > of retrieving  it?
>
> It's normally easier to boot into single user mode and change it to
> something
> new than to try to recover it.
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100%.

Yet another way is to boot off of a CD or USB stick and manually edit the
/etc/shadow file in the root partition - but that is more cumbersome.

Boris.
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