root passwd

[Aaron Peterson]

On 7/7/05, शंतनु (Shantanoo) <shantanoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/7/05, billy gates <billy_gates05 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > can you help me to get root passwd without boot loader?(may be software for windows or linux)
> 
> password is stored as the md5 of the string. can't be reverse engineered.
> 
> Regards,
> Shantanoo

Of course, you can change the root password if you have physical
access to the machine.  Boot into single user mode, "mount -a", and
use the "passwd" command to make a new password.