On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 23:54 +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
I guess debian too requires the root password. Another method which I guess would work is boot off using the knoppix CD. Mount the root partition and then kill the root password. But this is just theory. I havent tried it practically :)
This is what I said in my first post and it works :) It really doesn't matter whether you use the distro's CD/DVD in rescue mode or use Knoppix or any other "recovery" CD/floppy based distros - as long as it supports the files system modules for your / fs.