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Old 08-09-2009
help|how to rest my password admin(root)

i have gentoo and i dont know what is my password user admin(root)
how i can to rest my passord?
thanks.
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Old 08-09-2009
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Old 11-06-2009
boot from install CD, mount the gentoo filesystem, chroot to that directory, runn passwd.
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