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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