[K12OSN] Loosing access to master password

[Alan A Hodson]

Hi gang

The unthinkable happened. Somehow I lost the root password to a new 
system, and I am facing the daunting task of having to reinstall 
everything... No files need to be saved, BUT, the question arises, 
what if the system is hacked and your root password changed? What 
security options are there? - I am thinking a boot disk with root 
login with no pwd or some such emergency app, something like the 
Install OSX CD in Macs, where one of the choices is change passwords 
(being linux based, one of our gurus ought to be able to reverse 
engineer the process...)
Cheers
Alan Hodson
El Paso ISD, TX
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