Forget my root password of n810

hi
iam using the n810 internet tablet and i want to run my own application on it and while running it asks me to become root and unfortunately some one changed the root password r i forget the root password ..i mean something happen ....so.. for running my application i need to get the root password ..can u plz help me in getting that otherwise can u suggest me how to set a new root password..

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I forget my linux (release as4) root password
how to reset the password You use the passwd command. That is the easy part.
The difficult part is that you need root access to run this command for the root account.
Which means using another method, than logging on using root username and password. This method can be to ssh into the root account using trusted keys. IMO, it will be a major security flaw on your side if you do not use ssh trusted keys for root access and rely on password verification instead. Another method will be using the sudo command (assuming that this has been setup and configured). If there is a VNC server session for the root desktop, access can be gained that way (VNC will be using a different password and of course you will need to know that password).
Or you can pop in a LiveCD (Ubuntu/Kubuntu) into the server, boot that, mount the root file system of the server and manually edit the +/etc/shadow+ file.

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