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[Peter Gordon]

> I used fedora core 4 for long time but now i lost root password.
> 
> anyway to find or recovery my password??

At the Grub boot screen, press 'e' to edit the line (you may need to press
'c' and enter your password. Append a '1' to the kernel like, so it reads
something like the following:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet 1

This will boot you into a single-user mode shell prompt. From there type
'passwd' and hit the Enter/Return key. This will allow you to enter a new 
password for your root user. When you're finished, you can either reboot or
run `telinit 5`. Hope that helps!
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