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Hi, I remember back in the days, there was a neat trick to recover a lost root password, or more exactly, redefine a new password for root. 1. In the bootloader, boot the system with the 'init=/bin/bash' kernel argument. 2. Remount the root partition in read-write mode: # mount -o remount,rw / 3. Set the password for root: # passwd 4. Remount the root partition in read-only