Topic: lost root password

[hankycheng]

how can i do when i lost root password?????
who can help me??

[Terry Brummell]

Well, searching the forum helps, and multiple post usually doesn't get you anywhere.  I found this doing a search:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=12695.msg47690#msg47690

Give it a try and let us know how you do.  The posting is older then the release of 5.5 so it may not work, but it's worth a shot.

Terry

[Theo]

re-install

[Matt]

No that should not be required at all.

I've used the "esmith single" method myself on 5.0 and have suggested it to others who I believe to have been using 5.5 or at least 5.1.2 and it worked fine.