09-27-2011, 03:58 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: May 2005
Location: Atlanta Georgia USA
Distribution: Redhat (RHEL), CentOS, Fedora, CoreOS, Debian, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Solaris, SCO
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If you boot into single user mode from the console it will automatically put you in as root. You can then create your password entries as root. Better yet if you have a copy of the passwd file you can copy it over then set the root password to what you want.
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