Just out of curiosity, what's the recommended method of recovering
root's password on Debian once you forget what it is?

I booted rescue/ramdisk0 from floppies and deleted root's password
from /etc/shadow, rebooted and logged in as root (I didn't give
a password, it just gave me root).

Surely this isn't the recommended method, or is it?  (If passwd were
statically linked, which BTW makes a heck of a lot of sense, security
wise, I would have been able to just use passwd after rescue/ramdisk,
but no, not even
# LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/target/lib passwd
would work.)

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