On 18 Nov 2001, CmdrRoot wrote:

> This is really a longshot but does anyone know how to get root without a
> password?

Boot to a floppy rescue disk and edit the /etc/passwd, or if you use
shadow, then etc/shadow (you ARE shadowing passwords, right?)

May I recommend tomsrtbt?

http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html

Brian

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