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Re: Linux root password mystery
« on: December 12, 2008, 02:15:51 PM »
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skurk wrote:
Boot into runlevel 1.  When dumped into a shell, change the password and reboot (or continue the init process)


wouldnt work on any of my boxes, you still need a password to log in. usually in this situation I just boot a live cd, mount the drive and remove the password from the /etc/passwd and reboot
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