root password

[Ian Zimmerman]

Holt> Option 2 (naughty, ugly, and might mess up your system):

Holt> - use your boot loader to boot the kernel with its normal set of
Holt> arguments and append the string 'init=/bin/bash'.

Holt> - back up etc shadow (cp -p /etc/shadow /etc/shadow.bak)

Holt> - drop the following into /etc/shadow using cat: root::::::::

Holt> - run: sync;sync;sync;reboot -f

The middle two steps are more easily and safely accomplished by

mount -n -o remount,rw /
passwd
mount -n -o remount,ro /

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