cant su forgot passwd

Christopher Black cblack at securecrossing.com
Sun Jun 12 22:30:18 GMT 2005


There's no way to recover the original password since it's stored in a
one-way hash.  You can boot into single user mode and reset it though.  

On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 14:53 -0700, Angelo Munez wrote:
> hi..
> is there anyway i can retrieve my root password?
> and is there anyway i can copy all my configuration
> and run to anothere box? thnaks more power
> 
> 
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