I found a site I bookmarked it tells you how to do it.
http://cities.lk.net/lost_password.htm
Tim
On Monday 17 September 2001 05:21, you wrote:
> 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.)
