Re: lost password

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Subject: Re: lost password
From: Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:21:08 +0200
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Hello

disciple@exis.net (<disciple@exis.net>) wrote:

> forgot root password.  just installed "woody"...
> tried alt, shift ctrl keys and was able to get to lilo.  it still
> asked for the root passwd.

At the lilo prompt, enter:

Linux init=/bin/sh

at the commmandline:

mount -o remount,rw /
passwd
mount -o remount,ro /
reboot

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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