Re: Lost root password problem !

To: ryan robin <robinbonse@xxxxxxxxx>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Lost root password problem !
From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:29:11 +0530
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ryan robin wrote:

I've lost root password. What I have to do now to login FC3 as root?
TIA.

boot into rescue mode and use the passwd command to reset your password

Here are the instructions for RHEL which applies equally well to Fedora in this context

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-rescuemode-boot.html

regards
Rahul