[Savannah-hackers] grub password

[Alexander Gutowski]

   I have loaded Grub as the boot loader for my machine but I cannot 
open the confiiguration file for it with the password I submitted when 
first setting it up.  
I am running Red Hat 7.3, Kernal 2.4.8.17 as the primary kernel along 
with a couple of older kernels for backup.  I can open the Grub Conf. 
file when logged in as root and can see the line Password = MD5 
alphanureric keys written.  
How do I get the password changed to one that is functional?    Logging 
in under root everytime  to make a change, does not appeal to me as the 
proper way to make changes to the Grub Conf.file.
Any help in resolving this problem will be greatly appreciated.
Sincerly
A  Gutowski