On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote:
> Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any windoz
> password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user be
> reset. Say if you forgot it?
>
> James S. Lawson
> Network Administrator

The only way that I know of to do this is to bring the computer up in Single 
User mode and reset root password from there.  You should be able to do that 
by putting options in Lilo at boot to bring up Linux in single user mode.

If you have password protected Lilo, I am not sure that you can reset the root 
password without some type of reinstall.

-- 
Bryan Phinney
Software Test Engineer


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