Ok, you can do the following: 1. boot the computer. When it asks you for boot: type in linux init=/bin/sh That will drop you into shell without asking for any passwords. Then umount / (reason for this is / is only mounted as read ) And remount the / partition as read-write. then edit the passowrd file to blank out the second field in the root line (field being anything between : ) THen save the file and sync
The just login as root, and it should let you in without problem, then just reset the password. There may be 2 password files, /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow Make sure if that happens, that you change both. HTH, Andrew ____________________________________________________________________ Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |