> > --AH+kv8CCoFf6qPuz > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 01:58:36AM -0400, Woodrow Lovett wrote: > > MY system will not accept my password. Can I enter the system with a > > ram disk system to view the password file. Wheere is the password > > file? I hav slink installed on a Linux Dos stack. > > Boot the system single user mode and clear the root password from > /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow as appropriate. RTFM/RTFAQ if you don't > understand any of this. >
Does not single user mode inquires for root password? One alternative in case one forgets the root password is to use the rescue disk, go to the 2nd VT, mount / and clear the root password from /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow as appropriate. Isn't there is a possibility to boot into sh? > --=20 > Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself > Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org > GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 > > --AH+kv8CCoFf6qPuz > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature > Content-Disposition: inline > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.2 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE5njSrOEeIn1XyubARAlknAJ9io8pgd0hEGukdeV6q1OUI59BfswCfWw2V > YC0InDlAMaZMuvX79c+a8i4= > =lPJ5 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --AH+kv8CCoFf6qPuz-- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com -- -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com