One method to recover a lost root password

[Soeren Straarup]

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)

Futher reading: man 8 vipw

/Soeren

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