There are various simple methods, the easisest being to boot into single user mode. If that doesn't work, then boot using a rescue disk, mount your root partition, and clear out the password field in /etc/shadow for the root user. That will do the trick!
Ambar Roy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vaibhav Sharma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 8:09 AM Subject: [ilugd] Root password Hello Everybody A friend of mine is facing a very peculiar problem. He bought an assembled system and asked the vendor to install Red Hat Linux 8.0. The vendor claiming he has not even heard the name before (some egghead living in caves before he started assembling PCs) reluctantly agreed. The machine was shipped and this friend of mine could not find time to work on it for a full one week. (Don't ask me how he resisted the temptation). Now when he dialed up the vendor to find out the password for the root account, the vendor has himself forgotten it. We tried all simple combinations but of no avail. Can anyone in the list provide some tips or a way out of this situation? _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
