passwords

[Jima]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 msimonet at ydl.net wrote:
> Does anybody know of a way to get/change the root password?

 Maybe you have sudo access?
 Try (at your user's prompt):

sudo bash

 You'll be asked for a password.  That's your user's password, not root's.  
(Common misconception with sudo.)  If it succeeds, you can change root's 
password with:

passwd root

 (Which is probably redundant, but what the heck.)
 If not...there's one other way, if you can append kernel arguments (never 
tried this with YDL), but it's a bit of a pain.  You might be best off 
contacting the company.

     Jima