On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 10:10:32 -0500
Timothy Wilson <wilson at visi.com> wrote:
>Can anyone offer some advice on how to reset root?

If you can, try booting with:

linux init=/bin/sh

No services or anything will start (since init is replaced with /bin/sh) but
you should be able to remount / as rw (mount -o remount,rw /) and then change
the password.  Make sure you remount as ro and run sync a few times before
rebooting, just to be safe.

Otherwise, you can often use a boot disk to mount the partition and modify
/etc/shadow 

(just copy the password entry from a user who knows their password)


Jay

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