[plug] Root password

[Bernd Felsche]

skribe <skribe at amber.com.au> writes:

>On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 07:34, Joong Cho wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> How do you retrieve the password for root? I accidentally changed the
>> password for root and I forgot my password. How do you retrieve passwords
>> in Linux?
>>
>> I also can't change the password for root.

>You could always do what our *former* windows tech did at times like these: 
>complete re-install.  No backups.  No warning.

>=)

I don't know if that's worse than

	# chmod -R 777 *

from the root directory.
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