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Friday, November 18, 2016

Regaining root's password

Regaining root's password
 1) Boot from a cd-rom or a bootable Tape.
 2) Press F5 or 5.
 3) Select option 3 from installation and maintanance menu: Start maintanance menu for system recovery.
 4) Follow the option to activate the root vg and obtain the shell.
 5) Once a shell is available then run the passwd command to reset the password for root.
 6) sync
 7) Reboot the system.


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