On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 11:34 -0300, Mauro Faccenda wrote:
> Maerlyn wrote:
> > Hy,
> > 
> > I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with
> > passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to,
> > it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works.
> > Is there any way to recover my root passwd?
> 
> Boot as single user (kernel parameter 'single'). And change it.
> 
> []'s
>       Mauro

Or put boot off of your LiveCD, mount your root partition, chroot to it,
and passwd root...

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