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Forgot Root Password - Have FTP Access

I'm in quite a bind here

I forgot my root password to my centos linux remote server, however I have ftp access

Is there a way to use ftp access to the server to change or find out the root password to the server?

This is VERY urgent, so I'm giving 500 points for any assistance.

Thanks, Brad
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You're going to need console access to the box.
Do you have physical access? would be the fastest thing to reset it...
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no I do not have physical access

I'm able to execute scripts on this server though, anyway to change the pw with a script?
If you do not have any physical access then it's quite hard to reset the password. If you had physical access, you would just need to pop in the distribution CD and boot in recovery mode, then use the passwd command to change the password.

If you could run the scripts with root privileges, then it should be alright. If you can't, then I don't think there's any way that you can reset the root password.
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Without the root password known to you, you can not do such thing.

What do you mean by having ftp access and can run scripts ?

The datacenter was able to reset it for mw with those directions arrkerr

Thanks, Brad