[ale] Hacking root password

[jwl at pobox.com (Jacob Langseth)]

Carl Forsell scribed:
> Well, back to this beast... I have been trying this suggestion as well as
> others and have had no luck.
> 
> I can catch it at the lilo boot and enter linux -s... it does take me to
> single user mode... and then asks for the root password.

Try passing init=/bin/sh to lilo.  You'll need to remount
the root filesystem read/write before you'll be able to
edit the password file, but this will bypass any password
requirements enforced by /sbin/init.

Hope this helps,
 Jacob

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