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Okay ^^ slackers

i just want to share this and i hope this wouldn’t & can’t be used for criminality or something !! :p

the case is when you lost your root password or someone change it silently. How to recover it ?

first, prepare the live CD for your slackware series , ex : slackware 12.1 livecd.

1. Power on ur computer

2. boot the LiveCD.

3. just enter when ask about keymap

4. Login as ROOT

5. know u are the root ! Mount ur root partition to a directory (lets’s make it)

6. If you forgot what partition is your root, type fdisk -l to check ur partition status. Lets agree that we have /dev/sda2 as the root in this case.

7. mkdir test

8. mount /dev/sda2/test

9. chroot test

10. vi /etc/shadow

11. u will see the root :<encryption number>:ID:0:::::

12. delete JUST the encryption number and replace it with blank or *

13. :wq

14. umount test

15. reboot

16. take the LiveCD from ur DVD/CD player

17. enter the slackware : login as root with blank password

18. change your password with passwd

19. finish ^^

alternative way after steps number 10 : if u are forgot or accidentaly delete ur ID and the number after it. We can trick this as long as you have two profiles.

For example, u have root and ‘antonie’ user. u remember the antonie password and u lost your root password. Just write to your root : …. : … :…. :::: exactly the same as the antonie has one. !!

then follow the 13-19 steps..

that’s the simple way of mine to change the root password

Hope this can help ur problem….^^

Love and Hugs,

Bo