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Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

Boris Fersing

2008-03-24

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On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Grant <emailgrant@(protected):
> I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root
> password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log in
> there fine. Can I recover the root password?
>
> - Grant

Hi,

boot with a liveCD, mount the gentoo partition, chroot into it and type 'passwd'

regards,

Boris.
> --
> gentoo-user@(protected)
>
>



--
$ ruby -e'puts " .:@(protected) \
aX5aX8axaX3ax8aX4ax6aX3aX6ax3ax3aX9ax4ax2aX9axaX6ax3aX2ax4 \
ax3aX4aXaX12ax10aaX7a").join'
--
gentoo-user@(protected)

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