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From: Uwe Thiem
Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password
From: Uwe Thiem
Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password
On Monday 24 March 2008, Grant wrote:
> I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root
> password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log
> in there fine. Can I recover the root password?
If you could passwords were useless. ;-)
But you can boot from a LiveCD, mount your harddrive, chroot and then
give root another password.
Uwe
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