any way to recover root password on 5.2

Thu May 6 03:03:46 PDT 2004

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

regards
ch
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