10 ways of resetting a lost linux root password

[ Thanks to j00p34 for this link. ]

"Luckily there are ways of getting access to systems without having the password. This is of course in a sense also a security risk. That's why you should always be aware that having unattended physical access to a computer system means the same as having root access to the operating system. Unless the information on a system is encrypted, it's only as save as the room it's in.

"The method to use to reset the password if you lost the root (or only) password depends on the configuration of your system. But it mostly comes down to two separate tasks:

"- get write access to the root partition - change the password/circumvent control

"Here are some things you can try from easy to more complicated."

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