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We had a power outage and the Linux 6.2 server went down. After the power came back on the server booted without any problems except for the fact that it does not recognize the root password. Therefore I am locked out of root. Can anyone shed any light on what is going on. Thanks

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by renotek

If your not running shadow passwords this is something you can try. Boot your machine with
linux single
at the lilo prompt. Once you reach the command line you should be able to run
passwd root
and change/reset your password. Reboot the system and you should be able to login with your new password.

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