Cannot login as root

Tech Talk Linux - General
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If you need to change root’s password you can do it like this:

  1. Boot rescue CD
  2. Mount / somewhere (like /mnt)
  3. edit /mnt/etc/passwd by changing the entry for root to:
root::0:0:The root of all evil:/:/bin/bash
  1. Reboot system from harddrive, now root will have no password, so just use passwd to change it to whatever you want.