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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>What I have done in the past to set the password for root is to boot in rescue mode and edit /etc/shadow setting the password to some know value from another system.<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>"David @ULC" <ucoms2001@gmail.com><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B>Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:22:08 +0530<BR>
<B>To: </B><asterisk-users@lists.digium.com><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>[asterisk-users] Root Password not taking<BR>
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In one of my center , its not taking root password. <BR>
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Anyways to recover it ? <BR>
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In other terms , I lost the control of server. <BR>
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Any solution or re-installation is the only way left ?<BR>
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I am using CentOS.<BR>
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