From: <lis...@os...> - 2001-04-11 22:00:22
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Jeff Dike writes: > wl...@en... said: > > I have downloaded the latest kernel and tried to boot with login and > > passwd 'root' but failed. What is the correct login and password? > > Depends on the filesystem. Not all of them use root/root for some reason. > > The best way to deal with this is the same way as with a physical box that you > don't know the root password for. Boot it up single-user ('single' on the > command line) and change the root password when you get a root shell. > Mounting the filesystem on the host an using the usual tools to edit files should work nicely too. |