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- To change the root password of a system installed on your hard drive, you
- should make that system bootable, then boot it and run its own "passwd"
- program.
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- If you have forgotten the root password of a system on the hard drive, you
- can use a text editor to erase it, or use "chroot" to switch to that
- system's root filesystem and then run its own passwd command.
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- If you want to change the rescue system's root password (temporarily, for
- this session only), use the "bbcpasswd" program. The only reason to do this
- is if you want to bring the rescue system up on a network (and then connect
- to it by ssh).
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- To preserve the rescue system's configuration, including its root password,
- in between sessions, use "save-config" and "restore-config".
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