RE: How to recover root password

From: Sites, Brad (BSites_at_mem-ins.com)
Date: 12/29/03

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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 09:52:11 -0600

    Rus Foster wrote:
    > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Nguyen, David M wrote:
    >
    >> I forget root password. How do I recover it? I run redhat v9 and I
    >> have the system configured to have dual-boot. How do I get it to
    >> single mode to recover root password?
    >>
    >
    > Hi,
    > You can try booting with "linux init=/bin/sh"
    >

    Or, if running Grub, when you get the boot menu, press "e". Choose the boot
    option for linux and press "e" again. Add the word "single" to the end of
    that line and press enter. Then press "b" to boot off the modified line.
    That will boot you to a bash prompt where you can type "passwd" to change
    root's password.

    HTH,
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