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Re: I forgot my root Password



MaD dUCK wrote:
> 
> also sprach William Leese (on Fri, 04 May 2001 01:31:15AM +0200):
> > get a bootdisk, boot the comp with it, mount your root partition or the
> > partition containing /etc, open /etc/shadow (or passwd depending on your
> > configuration) and you'll find a line like:
>
 
Hit shift as the machine is booting to get the lilo prompt so you can do
the following

> or just give the command
> 
>   linux init=/bin/sh
> 
> to lilo as it boots...



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