On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root > password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log in > there fine. Can I recover the root password?
On the grub menu, edit the entry of the system you want to boot and on the kernel line, add "init=/bin/bash" without the quotes. Boot that modded boot instructions sequence. After kernel loads, you'll have a bash. Type: "mount -o rw,remount /" Then type "passwd", put the new root pwd. Remount the partition read-only: "mount -o ro,remount /" and reboot. Done! -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com
