change password

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• Goineasy9 Posts: 1,116

  January 2011

  As root, you have to use the "passwd" command. I believe once you're root, you just need to type passwd and hit enter, to be able to change root.
  Here's a link to the man passwd page:
  http://linux.die.net/man/1/passwd

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• hoseini Posts: 29

  January 2011

  but i forget to say that i dont have root password.

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• mfillpot Posts: 2,180

  January 2011

  If the system is not encrypted you should be able to use chroot from a liveCD to launch the passwd command.

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• paul_t Posts: 1

  April 2011

  If im not totally wrong, you could boot up in runlevel 1, and then change the root pwd.
  
  /P

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• marc Posts: 647

  April 2011

  hoseini wrote:

  but i forget to say that i dont have root password.

  
  The passwords are usually in the /etc/shadow file (they are not simple text)
  
  If you happen to know any user password copy it from that file to the root line. For this of course you'll need to chroot to the partition (whether it'd be from a livecd or inserting the hard disk into another computer)
  
  Regards

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