Re: Recover root password

[Jan <jandersen striva com>]

alan maciel wrote:
> anyone knows how to recover the root password?
>
> I have a server and the tech support people lost the root password.
>
> Regards
You are not supposed to able to crack the passwords in UNIX (yes, I know 
there's SW that can do this; I don't what it is).

If any terminal is logged in as root, simply change the password to 
something (and remember it). If not, boot up in single user mode and do 
it. If you use Linux you can tell the kernel to start in single user 
mode by passing 'init s' as kernel parameters. From lilo it would be 
something like:

linux init s

- here, 'linux' is whichever label you gave this kernel in lilo.conf.

I don't know how grub or other boot loaders handle kernel parameters; 
somebody else?

/jan