Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!adm!news From: SCEF0003%WSUVM1.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (James N. Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Getting to root when the password has been lost Message-ID: <24411@adm.BRL.MIL> Date: 6 Sep 90 18:10:13 GMT Sender: news@adm.BRL.MIL Lines: 3 Recently, we had a graduate student leave, after having changed the password for root on our UNIX V/3.2.2 system (AT&T UNIX/386). Is there any way we can get in and reset the password to a known value?