On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 07:32, Tarjei Knapstad wrote: > Editing /etc/passwd directly is certainly not to recommend, but there's > no need to reinstall because you lost your root password. Just boot the > bootdisks you created, and set a new root password. > > And if you didn't create a bootdisk you can grab tomsrtbt: > http://www.toms.net/rb/ > > Or any other linux rescue disk/bootdisk for that matter... You don't even have to do that. boot into single user mode (add 1 to the end of the kernel line at boot and you are at a command prompt as root. Something to keep in mind regarding physical security of a box. Any one can get root with physical access to the box. bios and bootloader passwords help but all bets are off if the box can be opened. Bret Bret
