... ciao: > i have forgotten my root pasword well boys and girls , whenever i see something like that, my immediate solution is suggesting a "NEW" install. servers two purposes immediately. first , it tends to make 'remembering' the "ROOT" password easier. finally , it more or less assures it not a 'social engineering' tactic. this pretty much a 'knee-jerk' reaction to such requests from 'email only' domains ... -- ... i'm a man, but i can change, if i have to , i guess ... - : 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