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On Monday 24 March 2008, Grant wrote: |
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> I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root |
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> password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log |
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> in there fine. Can I recover the root password? |
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If you could passwords were useless. ;-) |
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But you can boot from a LiveCD, mount your harddrive, chroot and then |
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give root another password. |
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Uwe |
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Informal Linux Group Namibia: |
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http://www.linux.org.na/ |
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SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: |
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http://www.SysEx.com.na/ |
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