root password

[Steven Stern]

On 02/07/2012 04:01 AM, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 22:28 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
>> The right way is to boot into single user mode. These will also work
>> if your account has sudo access
>>  
>> sudo su -
>>  
>> or
>>  
>> sudo /etc/shadow
>>  
>> and remove the root password, then login as root and reset the
>> password
>>  
>> or
>>  
>> sudo passwd root
> 
> Seems like you're all (the different solutions offered by various
> people) doing much more than you need to.  If you do manage to boot into
> the single user mode, you will typing in a terminal as the root user.
> All you have to do, next, is use the "passwd" command by itself, and
> enter a new password.  There's no need to su or sudo, nor edit any files
> where passwords are stored.
> 

Sometimes, one is not able to reboot.

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-- Steve