Boot off of a Live CD like Gentoo, mount your root partition, chroot to it, and clear the password field in you /etc/passwd file Michael Turcotte Information Systems City of North Bay 200 McIntyre St. E PO Box 360 North Bay, Ontario P1B 8H8 Mike.Turcotte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.cityofnorthbay.ca > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-newbie-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-newbie- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ankit Jain > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:16 AM > To: admin > Subject: root password > > hi > > i have forgotten my root pasword. i had installed > redhat linux 9.0 kernel version 2.4 with grub loader. > if somebody can tell me how to change the password > without logging. > > thanks > > ankit > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
