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
Bobby Fernando said,
November 20, 2008 at 7:05 am
why nobody gives comment ???
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dprislic.org/blog said,
November 25, 2008 at 3:52 am
Hi, nice blog.
Thanks for this post.
Now you have two comments.
Bobby Fernando said,
November 25, 2008 at 8:15 am
thank youuuuuuu !!
Rudi said,
February 3, 2009 at 2:08 am
Thank You. Thank You. Thank You
SK said,
February 19, 2010 at 2:36 am
Can you explain better the last solution ? I know the password of a user but do not knoe the password for root.What can I do ?
I am looking forward for your reply.Thanx!
Bobby Fernando said,
February 19, 2010 at 7:44 am
let us say that you user name is ‘abunawas’,
can u see something formatted like this ?–>
root ::ID:0:::::
(bla bla bla…..)
abunawas: :ID:0:::::
?
If you see it, just make a note with your pen and replace the root information with the abunawas information, example:
assumpted that:
root:@#$@$@#@$%1232423as@:ID:0:….
abunawas:%&^$%$#$#$asdadasd@:ID:0:….
then change the root:@#$@$@#@$%1232423as@:ID:0:….
into root:%&^$%$#$#$asdadasd@:ID:0:….
the short way to describe these steps are a tricky way to copy the abunawas password into root password
SK said,
February 21, 2010 at 12:54 am
Ok I got it. the problem is that my user can not edit the shadow file. In that case the only solution is with the live CD? Thank you a lot