Boot your debian in a live CD, mount the main patition and then run passwd 
root...

mkdir /mnt/hda3 (or sda3 depending ..) 
mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3
chroot /mnt/hda3 passwd root

If it's a raid, this can do ...

mdadm --assemble --run /dev/md0
mdadm --assemble --run /dev/md1
mount /dev/md1 /mnt
mount /dev/md0 /mnt/boot

cd /mnt
passwd root


>Hey guys,
>
>It sounds fake and ridiculous  but real....I went for long leave coming
>back....I don't remember my Production box (Debian Root pwd) , can any one
>remind how i can reset it with-out fresh installation/losing anything....
>
>rgds

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