On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's normally easier to boot into single user mode and change it to somethingOn Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 07:43:37 +0530,
Amit Rp <amitrp01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I forgot the root password. Please advise whether there is any possibility
> of retrieving it?
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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