Li Bing-
You need console access to do this (which if it's your box, I guess you do! ;):
Boot to single user mode:
"LILO: linux single"
You can then run passwd, and change the root password.
There is no (easy) way to recover the old root password (and this is a good
thing).
Good luck!
-Jacob
On Thu, 22
Mar 2001, you wrote: >
> Dear All,
>
> My RedHat root password is lost. I have resolved the same problem on
> Solaris. Can I do that on Linux? Could you give me ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Li Bing
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