Hi,<br>Try sudo gainroot in Xterm, should work because the r&d mode is enabled, and do passwd root.<br><br>good luck<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 15, 2007 3:59 PM, Jonathan D. Proulx <<a href="mailto:jon@csail.mit.edu">
jon@csail.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:28:47AM -0300, José Luís wrote:
<br>:Hi Alan,<br>:<br>:I try and works.<br><br>works, but I seem to have lost my root password and the default (if<br>there is one) doesn't seem to be what it once was.<br><br>my usual way of dealing with this had been installing openssh then
<br>sshing in as root and seting passwords, is there another way (or an<br>other password)?<br><br>as a last resort I could pick apart the rootfs and stuff in my own<br>password hash, but htat seems a bit extreme<br><br>-Jon
<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>José Luís do Nascimento<br>Mestrando em Engenharia Elétrica<br>Laboratório de Sistemas Embarcados e Computação Pervasiva<br>UFCG - Campina Grande<br>jluisn at {ee,dee,embedded}.ufcg.edu.br