From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JdtRq-0005Ya-3a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:39:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE481E04BF; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:39:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmailhost01.isp.att.net (fmailhost01.isp.att.net [204.127.217.101]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84166E04BF for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:39:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.78.70.66] (host-216-78-70-66.jan.bellsouth.net[216.78.70.66]) by isp.att.net (frfwmhc01) with ESMTP id <20080324203909H0100n4tcke>; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:39:09 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [216.78.70.66] Message-ID: <47E8116C.8030800@bellsouth.net> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:39:08 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080209 SeaMonkey/1.1.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password References: <49bf44f10803241330r3b447b4bkde7a062c73905b94@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10803241330r3b447b4bkde7a062c73905b94@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3ed7d3bf-14b9-4b57-b0ba-ed2485a9e417 X-Archives-Hash: 42eaf0689d80e89771685d0d164e262f Grant wrote: > I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root > password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log in > there fine. Can I recover the root password? > > - Grant > I think you can boot into single user mode and reset it. You have to put it on the end of the grub boot line but I can't recall what the exact option is. May help you search tho. You can also boot the CD and chroot in to reset it as well. I'm sure that will work just as well. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list