How to restore a lost root password...

[Daniel Bye]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 09:18:25PM +0100, Rada alive wrote:
> > I have seen a "How to" about this but I have a problem, i set the console
> > to insecure, so when I try to do the step of the "how to" i get a message
> > to input the root password or Ctrl-D to enter in multiuser mode.
> 
> What happened to just booting into single-user mode and issuing passwd?

The OP made a point of letting us know that he has marked his console
`insecure' in /etc/ttys. In order to even get a shell in single user,
he needs the root password.

Dan

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