root password recovery...
 

great...i typed the password wrong TWICE on the rh 7.2 install but the user i added during setup works...how can i recover it?

You should be able to boot into single-user mode and enter a new root password.

it says only root can specify a user when i try to passwd root

Did you boot into single user mode? And were you prompted with a login or not when or if you booted to a single user mode?

how do you boot into single user mode?

Type Linux 1 at the lilo prompt or append whatever you need to to laod runlevel 1. instead ofgoing multiuser, it should just run bash.

hmm i see thanks :D

Let us know if it works. For future reference you can also dump out to level 1 if you type init 1 at the console, but you need to be root to do that, so it won't help atm.