On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, dwen wrote:
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> Good day !
>
>
> One of my servers is asking for root password for maintenance,
> unfortunately i forgot the password. Is there any other way to
> bypass that ?
>
bootdisks are the key... what I do is I boot using the bootdisks from the
installation cd's, mount the root fs read-only then run fsck from there.
i'm not sure if redhat bootdisks still got the rescue mode, but
I use slackware's
hth,
-Mark
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