On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 15:39 -0500, Dale wrote: > Grant 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? > > > > - Grant > > > > I think you can boot into single user mode and reset it. You have to > put it on the end of the grub boot line but I can't recall what the > exact option is. May help you search tho. > > You can also boot the CD and chroot in to reset it as well. I'm sure > that will work just as well. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
The option is "single" but it won't help because it requests the root password before it gives you your /bin/bash. Anyway, if you have sudo-rights, you can simply do "sudo passwd" and it won't ask you for the old password.
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