[NTLUG:Discuss] ARGH! Root password lost

[Bug Hunter]

  Reboot the computer (ctrl-alt-del should do it)

 at the LILO: prompt, enter

linux init=/bin/sh

  you arrive at a bash prompt with / mounted as read only.  ls works,
along with a few other programs

mount -o remount -o rw /

 (this remounts root as read-write

then edit your passwd fiel.

 then 

umount /

ctrl-alt-del



On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Kathleen Weaver wrote:

> Short of reinstalling Linux, is there a way to change the root password?
> 
> I run the SuSE 6.1 distro if that helps.
> 
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