Re: [newbie] lost root password

[eric]

Franki wrote:

Hi,

I tried the suggestion shown below with no luck. I'm using 9.1, if that 
matters.

Boot from the mandrake CD1

I did that

press F1 for more options and then enter rescue at the prompt.
I did that


when it comes up, in rescue mode, type: chroot /mnt

This didn't work.  When it came up in resue mode, I chose "console" and 
then entered, chroot/mnt. I got an error. "bash no such file or 
directory" I got help for chroot. It says, chroot NEWROOT [options] or 
chroot command. Chroot gives me an error, "no such directory as NEWROOT"

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Eric

(mandrake may have given you the option of doing that from a menu now.. )

when thats done, type:

passwd root

and enter the new password twice.. and reboot..

good stuff

There is no way to get the old password back, its only stored as one 
way encryption,, so it can't be recoved.

rgds

Franki

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