Re: login name and passord recovery

eager wrote:

I forgot my login name and password recovery in Fedora Core.
is there any way to recover it , please?

Boot from a LiveCD, mount your system's root FS in rw-mode, then
chroot into the mountpoint (as root). Now you can use

passwd $user

to overwrite the password of $user.

Wolfgang Draxinger
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