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Re: recover lost root password



On Sunday 09 March 2003 8:01 am, Ian Melnick wrote:
> Question, though. I thought when you boot into single-user mode you're
> already root and you can just change the root password by running
> passwd. Is it different now?

Debian does not allow password-less single-user-mode logins, and I believe Red 
hat stopped the practice too.

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