On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 18:05 +0000, Anne Harriss wrote: If grub requires a password and you don't have that, you must boot off of either the rescue CD or the first installation CD in "rescue" mode: boot: linux rescue Tell the system to mount the existing system. Then enter this command at the "#" prompt: chroot /mnt/sysimage You'll get another "#" prompt and you can then edit the /etc/boot/grub/grub.conf file and either remove the "password" line or change the password. If grub does NOT require a password (or does and you know what it is), then do NOT use the CDs. Just reboot the system and when the grub menu comes up, hit the "E" key. Use the arrows to highlight the kernel that you normally boot (it'll probably already be highlighted) and hit "E" again. Use the arrows to highlight the line that starts with "kernel" and hit "E" once again. Go to the end of the line and append the word "single" to it and press "ENTER". Then press "B" and the system will boot into single user mode. When the boot process finishes, you'll be at the "#" prompt. At that point, you can change the root user password by issuing this command: passwd then put in the password you want for the root user. When you're all done, if you booted off CD, pop the CD out and enter "exit;exit". The first "exit" takes you out of the chroot environment, the second one will reboot the system. If you DIDN'T boot with a CD, just enter "exit" once and the system should boot to it's normal mode, but now with a new root user password. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens(a)vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "I understand Windows 2000 has a Y2K problem." - ----------------------------------------------------------------------