Ben Halicki wrote:
Hi all
How can I access Fedora to change my screwed up Root Password-FC3 on a Dell Laptop [ it has a floppy but No cdrom]
I must have typed in the same erroneous password twice.. go figure?
Many thanks in advance
Johnny
Johnny,
Boot into single user mode (by specifying the keyword 'single' as a bootloader option) and change root password from there
eg. kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.521 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet single
Regards,
Ben Halicki
Hi,
Just curious...
1) Won't he need the actual password to change it?
2) If not, is there any way to recover/find out the previous (erroneous) password?
Thanks,
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