you are lucky.. most OS's would require booting off an install disk..
linux can be hacked from console tho.. tho you have to reboot

at the lilo prompt:

LILO boot: linux 1

that should bring you up in single user mode.. if it asks for a password,
you are going to have to reboot and edit /etc/shadow manualy

LILO boot: linux init=/bin/bash rw

when booted to # prompt, you can vi /etc/shadow, remove the root password,
save then

mount -o remout,ro /

then halt the box.

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)

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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
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