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Re: Root Login invalid



On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:58:56PM +0530, Ashvin Barevadia wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>I am not able to login as root it's giving error "invalid login" even
>it's not asking password, so I have tried to login as su but it gives
>error "su authentication failure", please help me.

Found using a very popular web search tool, searching for "linux lost
root password":

http://aplawrence.com/Linux/lostlinuxpassword.html
http://cities.lk.net/lost_password.htm

If you have a LiveCD around it's an excellent replacement for the
root/boot disks they talk about.

/M

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