Re: I´ve lost my root password

From: Jubei (alex_at_spamfree.boag-munroe.com)
Date: 04/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:06:24 -0400

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:35:45 +0200, "Bengan" <gna521g@tninet.se>
wrote:

>Could someone please help me how to login as root without a password.
>I can login as user.
>
>//Bengan
>
Depending on your distribution, you should be able to boot from your
distro's CD into a rescue type environment, mount your root partition
and chroot to it. From there use the passwd command to assign root a
new password.

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