Nikhil Joshi spewed into the ether:
hi ! recently installed linux on my friend's comp. Now somehow he has forgotten the root password. Is it possible to recover the lost password? The password file is shadowed.
No, but if you boot into single user mode, you may be able to change the root password directly.
Devdas Bhagat
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Sometime today, dodobh@nettaxi.com wrote:
Is it possible to recover the lost password? The password file is shadowed.
No, but if you boot into single user mode, you may be able to change the root password directly.
That's if single user mode is not disabled by default. That was the case with SuSE, I guess.
Manish J.
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