Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the passwd RPM?
rpm -ev passwd
rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/passwd*.rpm
Not sure that it'll help, but it's easier than a reinstall.
Don Head [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Conger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 4:40 PM
To: Don Head
Subject: Re: [Cooker] HELP!! Can't Change root password.
Don Head wrote:
> Not sure what the problem is, but here's something that might help.
>
> Reboot the machine.
>
> At the LILO prompt, enter "linux single"
>
> With any luck, it'll boot you up to a root prompt where you can try doing
> it, or at least have access to some troubleshooting commands.
>
> Don Head [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Linux Mentor [1 314 692-1942]
> Wave Technologies, Inc. [1 800 826-4640 x1942]
> [AIM - Don Wave][ICQ - 18804935][Yahoo - Don_Wave]
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Conger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 4:19 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Cooker] HELP!! Can't Change root password.
>
> I Can't change root password with linuxconf or passwd. When I click on
> the button in linuxconf it does nothing. When root and I type passwd it
> says "passwd: Module is unknown", this only happens when root. Please
> help! I'm running a cooker from yesterday.
>
> Keith Conger
Already tried that ;) Gives me the same error when running passwd. I'm stuck
with a root account w/o a password. Thats not very good about to wipe the
the root partition and reinstall.
Keith
