On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
But then, conventional passwords are as useless. One needs no more than physical access to the computer, a LiveCD and a couple minutes in order to become the super user of your system. Basically, the password seems useful only to know whether anyone has changed it behind your back. I am starting to wonder why am I so attached to my root password being strong.. :) Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
