How to recover root password

[Jose Celestino]

Words by Russell Miller [Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 05:11:39PM -0700]:
> Russell Miller wrote:
>>
>>> ons so far have assumed you won't get asked for a root password to go  
>>> to single user.  There's a way around that too.
>>>
>>> Append "init=/bin/sh" to the end of the kernel line and boot.
>>>
>>> mount -o ro,remount /
>> That should be mount -r rw,remount
>>
> And THAT should be mount -o rw,remount /
>

LOL! I second your howto. It works everywhere and there's not a change
of a runlevel 1 password. It comes natural after a while...

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