Re: I forgot my root Password
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Leese" <wleese@europe.nl.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 1:35 AM
Subject: Re: I forgot my root Password
> On Friday 04 May 2001 01:31, William Leese wrote:
> > > Please I need your help, I know I`m a fuckin silly user, but I
forgot
> > > my root password, please I need your help, how can I recover it?
> >
> > get a bootdisk
>
> sorry, a rescue disk.
It is possible to use bootdisk, may be debian cdrom.
Boot, run shell, mount your root partition and do
chroot <mounted dir> passwd
Unmount, boot your system and log with new password.
Chris
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