Re: Forgotten root passwd

Thanks for the replies so far.

I must be missing a step as it boots the machine into a mode where the 
file system is read only, so I can't modify the passwords.

What's next ?

 IJesper R. Meyer wrote:

>Phil wrote:
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>>Can you use the CF image to boot into a recover mode to change/delete
>>the root password ? If so how?  And if not any other ideas ?
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>>From lilo or grub or what ever you use you should be albe to boot
>using /bin/sh or /bin/bash as init. Then mount/remount your root
>partition writeable and change the password...
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>>From lilo it could be something like:
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>LILO: linux init=/bin/sh root=/dev/hdc1
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>/jrm
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