Are you sure it isn't someone else's computer you want to break into?
:-) Well, I'll trust you. After turning on the computer at the LILO
prompt type linux single That will boot in single user mode. There you
can type passwd to change the root password.
"DANG, Muoi" wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I wonder anyone out there know that way to get root password in case forget
> it. I have a situation a guy setting up a RedHat5.2 and after few months he
> left the company without telling the root password. Now we need to log in
> but we can't because we don't have password.
>
> In HP-UX it can be done easily by booting to single mode, change a
> /etc/password and reboot a computer. Can this be done on RedHat Linux?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Muoi Dang
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