any way to recover root password on 5.2

[Christian Hiris]

On Thursday 06 May 2004 12:03, Christian Hiris wrote:
> On Thursday 06 May 2004 11:28, Gregory Edigarov wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I forgot root pasword on my just installed server.
> > I've tryed to recover it by going to single user, then doing
> > mount -a; passwd root, but no success. It says "entropy device
> > blocking. Dance fandago on keyboard to unlock".
> > what can I do?
>
> on newer 5.2-CURRENT systems type
> # /etc/rc.d/preeseedrandom

uhhh, typo !!!!!
# /etc/rc.d/preseedrandom

>
> regards
> ch
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