One method to recover a lost root password

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 06:49:02AM +0100 I heard the voice of
Soeren Straarup, and lo! it spake thus:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:45:30PM -0000, Derekj Tourneo wrote:
> > now edit the master password file
> > 
> > 	vi /mnt/etc/master.passwd
> 
> Try: vipw -d /mnt/etc
> It automaticly updates the right db(s)

# chroot /mnt passwd root


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