you have to boot the emergency disk then mount your system then remove password from /etc/passwd for root then reboot your system and you should be able to log as root with no password On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, System Administrator wrote:

HI

cna anybody tell me how can one retrive root password if one has forgotten after changing it ?

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At the LILO prompt give "linux init /bin/sh" && them change the pass with $ passwd N System Administrator wrote:

HI

cna anybody tell me how can one retrive root password if one has forgotten after changing it ?

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