[webmin-l] Regarding "pre encrypted" passwords

[Frank <fra...@ho...>]

Hi all,
 
This must be the single most ridiculous situation I found myself in lately,
and maybe someone can help me on this one.
 
By mistake, I changed the root password using plain text in the "pre
encrypted" password field, thus locking myself out.  My system is very
secure now, to say the least...
 
I do not wish to retreive the password (it's probably in some form of hash),
but is there a way to make use of my human readable password to correspond
to the way it is now stored on the system?  I've noticed that the pre
encrypted field had been hashed upon saving the root user profile.
 
Any help on that would be most welcome, to say the least.
 
Frank