root password

You can boot up the system in Single User mode by typing at the boot: linux single. From there you can use linuxconf or the chpasswd command. Good luck!!

Hi,
U can't get actual password of root if u don't remember.But u can put new password for root. When u boot ur machine u will get lilo prompt.Type there " linux single".U will boot in to linux without usernme & passsword verification.U will belogin as root.At prompt type "passwd" command and enter the new password and reconfirm it.
avi.

well depending on your linux disto you can go about it a few different ways, a way that has worked for me on every system i've ever tried has been to download a single disk distro (tomsrtbt), just make sure that it supports your file system (with unix=ufs support, linux ext2 or ext3 or rieserfs), boot the distro, mount the hard disk onto a mount point (/mnt), go to the etc directory under the mount point (/mnt/etc/), and use vi to edit the password file (/mnt/etc/passwd), after the first colon (:) there should be an x (because your using shadowed passwords) just delete the x and save the file, now reboot and log into the machine as root (without a password) then do passwd root and presto your back in control (had to help a friend out with a sun machine one time with that, and it wouldn't let him in single user mode without root password), have fun

boot system in single user mode
by lilo: linux single
u get the # prompt
use the command
# passwd root
change ur root password

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