Re: Recover root password
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Antonio Mu?oz-Flores wrote:
> Is there something I can do to recover the root password or for logging
> as the root user without having to reinstall Debian?
If you didn't create a bootdisk when you installed, download tomsrtbt from
http://www.toms.net/rb/
and create a bootdisk. (It's a useful thing to have around anyway.)
Then boot the tomsrtbt system, mount your linux partition, edit
/etc/shadow and remove the encrypted root password. Then reboot your
system, login as root (which now won't require a password), and use
'passwd' to reset root's password.
This is all from memory and untested!!
Patrick
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Patrick Wiseman
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