Technical Tips and Solutions
26/11/2001 - Recover root password on DEC Alpha
To recover from a lost/forgotten (or stolen !) root password on True 64 Alpha servers - boot into single user mode - >>>boot -flags s This will log in as root user with only the /(root) filesystem mounted, mount the /usr and /tmp filesystens (or just mount -a), now issue the passwd command. Finally reboot or init 3