Matthew Frederico wrote:
We have a local box that needs some rooting to happen to it because
nobody
knows the root password.
Boot a live CD, and do this:
mkdir /mnt/rooted
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/rooted (replace sda1 with the partition that has
your installed root partition on it)
cd /mnt/rooted
chroot /mnt/rooted
source /etc/profile
passwd (enter the new root password twice)
exit
reboot
That's what I do -- works like a charm. Most modern distros don't let
you do the single user trick at the grub prompt anymore. Good luck!
--Dave
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