Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2009 mails)

[tonyz@xxxxxxxxxx (Tony Zafiropoulos)]

Off the cuff....

on my system it is

vmlinuz single

(The name in LILO and then single, so as to boot in single mode)

Tony Zafiropoulos
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Linux News User wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there any way to change the root password if I forgot it ?
> 
> I have read in some place (I can't remember where !!) that I could start 
> the Linux box and type at the Lilo Prompt "something" and start (I guess in 
> single user mode) and use the passwd command to change the root password !! 
> Is this true ? and if it is... who can I do it and how can I avoid it ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
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