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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: Subject: How can I change screwed up Root Password-FC3 on Dell Laptop[

From: Gustavo Seabra <seabra@xxxxxxx>

Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 15:36:27 -0600

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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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