On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 9:09 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> During the recent melée of trying get X running again after upgrading > from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16 I somehow lost my root password. That is, > it no longer works. > > Sudo still works, and I can "sudo su" to a root # prompt, but if I type > "su" and enter the root password it won't take it. I've poked in all > the GUI windows for users and groups, but can't figure out how to reset > the root password. > > It used to be that "su" + root password got me to #, and I could "su > jjj" to switch back to my own lovable self. I don't mind using sudo, > but sometimes you need to do a lot of stuff and having to put sudo in > front all the time is a pain. Plus, Fedora doesn't remember your sudo > password for ten minutes or so like Ubuntu does. > > Can someone point me in the right direction to restore my root > password? > sudo su - passwd root _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
