On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, > Dear Sir: > > I installed debial 2.1 and i forgot the root password. > Can you tell me please how i can change the root password ? > There are several ways. The simplest is to make a rescue floppy (or boot with the installation disk), mount your root, edit etc/passwd (on your root system) and delete the 'x' on the root line: root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash to root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
As far as I know you can boot up your system as usual, login as root (but you do not have to give the password), run passwd and enter your password. Greetz, Sebastiaan
