On Monday 24 March 2008, Grant wrote: > I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root > password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log > in there fine. Can I recover the root password?
If you could passwords were useless. ;-) But you can boot from a LiveCD, mount your harddrive, chroot and then give root another password. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: http://www.SysEx.com.na/ -- [email protected] mailing list
