On Monday 24 March 2008, Grant wrote:
> 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?

If you could passwords were useless. ;-)

But you can boot from a LiveCD, mount your harddrive, chroot and then
give root another password.

Uwe

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