Re: lost my root password, howto ?



thanks for helping
Is there a case were the root password is unrecoverable.
Or is there any possibility to let a root password unresetable ?
Am just thinking ..

On 3/31/06, Paul E Condon <pecondon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:10:48PM +0200, Zouari Fourat wrote:
Hello,
I've got debian sarge installed and i've lost my root's password, how
to reset it ?


Look at:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-crackroot


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