Put server in recovery & login, then ..

First determine the partitions on your PC

fdisk -l

To change your root password (replace hda3 with your root file system):

mkdir /mnt/hda3
mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3
chroot /mnt/hda3 passwd root


On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:47:45 +0300, roy mukasa <[email protected]> wrote:

Hey guys hope you are all well. Ok i have a quick on. Does anyone know
how to change the root password using a live cd? I have a machine
running Fedora 7 (moonshine) and i want to use a suse 11.2 live cd to
reset the password through system rescue. Does anyone know the command
to do so. Thanks in advance.

regards




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