Shadow password file

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 04:50, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> Hello all:
> 
> I have a machine on which I have lost the root password.  (Doh!)  I was 
> looking for a workaround to reinstallation.  I was thinking I could boot it 
> with Knoppix and replace the shadow password file.  As a test, I looked at 
> the shadow password files on two different machines that happend to be the 
> same distro and have the same root password.  The encrypted entries for the 
> root password were different!  I can understand this would be a security 
> feature, but does anybody know of a wayI could get my workaround scheme to 
> work?
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devel-list probably isn't the place for this...

boot linux 1 - if grub, simply add 'linux 1' to the end of the line that
includes the root=/ 

this will boot in single user mode - no password needed

then type passwd root

and enter the new password

then init 3 (or 5) and you are home

Craig