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From: SCEF0003%WSUVM1.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (James N. Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re:  Getting to root when the password has been lost
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Date: 12 Sep 90 00:25:16 GMT
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Thanks for all who offered suggestions as to how to get to root when the
password has been lost.  The solution lies in booting into the single user
version, then mounting the disks and editing the shadow file.

Again, thanks to all.