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Old 30-09-2005, 01:59 PM   #3
chickenman
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WOW you forgot your root password


if you have a live CD use that then open a terminal (ctrl + alt + F1)
mount your Linux partition (such as mount /dev/hda1 /mnt)

then chroot /mnt

then use passwd to change the root password.

or if your using ubuntu

sudo passwd
or sudo paswd root
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