you can take that HHD and connect it to another machine running linux and mount it so you got access to the passwd and shadow file( just empty the encrypted pwd in those files) then u can connect with no passwd as root and don't forget to change it later
*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 2/28/2003 at 1:36 PM Nikos Papadopoulos wrote: >I use Mandrake 8.2 and I have forgotten the root password or someone >changed >it. I tried to boot in single user mode, mount the disk and reset the >password from the shadow and passwd files, but there are two HDD with >software mirroring enabled and I could not mount the disk. What can I do in >order to reset the root password? > >Regards, >Nick. > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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