new install and lost my root password (I know - ID 10 T)
Scott Talbot
talbotscott at cox.net
Tue Apr 20 02:35:30 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 12:25, Matthew Benjamin wrote:
> Does anyone know how to recover from a forgotten root password on
> Fedora? I know how to do it on linux versions with lilo, however I am
> booitng with GRUB and when going into Command line mode there is no
> passwd command available.
>
> mattB.
Just so you get the straight stuff, make sure you edit the "kernel" line
in grub conf. You can use either "1" or "single". here's the link to a
good tutorial:
http://fedoranews.org/ghenry/grub/
Scott
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