Hi, On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Rodney Ray wrote: > I have a friend that forgot his root password on rh 6.2 box. can someone tell me how to get back into the box under root My Crystal Ball tells me that his password is... "1q2w3e"!!! Actually, at LILO: go "linux init=/bin/bash", then mount -oremount -orw / Then you can vi /etc/shadow and blank the password, then mount -oremount -oro / anreboot. -Yaron --