forgot root passwd?

**pureone** · 02-21-2005, 11:04 PM

forgot root password but you was lucky enough to put your self in sudo? then its easy.

Code:

sudo su

then type passwd. it will not ask you for your current password at all.

enjoy

**johnb** · 02-24-2005, 05:14 AM

if you were not "lucky"
boot your live CD
mount drive partition (hda?)where knoppix is installed. Make writeable.
replace ? with partition number
Open a shell
become root by su
chroot /mnt/hda? passwd

johnb

**mozkill** · 02-24-2006, 04:02 AM

to make it a million times easier, couldnt you just type "KNOPPIX 1" at the boot prompt, to get into single user mode and then just change the password with the password command? doh!