[TriLUG] no root PW

Greg Brown gregbrown at mindspring.com
Wed Apr 17 12:26:52 EDT 2002


Help.  I have just inherited a Red Hat 7.1 system and nobody knows the root 
password.  I'd like to just scrape the system clean and start over but I 
can't do that for a variety of reasons.  

Is it possible to reset the root password without damaging the file system?

I have a working user account on this system, if that helps.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Greg



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