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 1JdtJ6-0004qG-2s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:30:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1F38E0511; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:30:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 961EEE0517 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:30:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so3822254wah.10 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:30:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=q1Nvp3aAQYbmvGqfKCbc5LH8OXIaQupfIPN/Oe2gI0g=; b=tYIYxI1kF4UnXcD+gF1BkzBGCLzHIi6fsJ9EBxMGIIIuvNEhbbIraGC8qY+czxUy0dxiYyHWK/OqbBleDkEAyV73r8c7D9TEkcfrbD8dJuZsRQxgqneWKuPAMVkFWytMiYftfZ+JN61mCp5QZOGFg9Ffe4ijOIAHXlIymMuFZz8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=IyXhZ9Iubq7afs6l9fVS8RCdSh7b1ewI9rXUyDnJj3ibTBC1z+JC4z5Dn69loaRwq+xDvhS0WQkJSuJP/Dsw9EFjhm02044HKqEQITUQlYw79RrE3yxHyJR/hGDUWH0KerYY4Llhp9y5e+uhfCc8aKGxZho/9nhHqloeYRT35QI= Received: by 10.114.192.1 with SMTP id p1mr12623617waf.47.1206390608627; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:30:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.39.8 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:30:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10803241330r3b447b4bkde7a062c73905b94@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:30:08 -0700 From: Grant To: "Gentoo mailing list" Subject: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Archives-Salt: 9118ebca-b8c6-4cd7-9ed3-12ce3cb9d469 X-Archives-Hash: cdaf6154c25a367fdfcd132a93f7b145 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 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list