What to do if you forgot the root password in linux?

Boot into single user mode
Enter ‘linux -s’ or ‘linux single’ (without quotes) at the LILO boot prompt.
press ‘e’ at the Grub screen and then add ’single’ to the kernel line and boot.
Now you have booted into the single user mode and have root access you can simple type ‘passwd’ at the shell prompt to change [...]

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