Hi folks, > He was the only administrative user on the system. I hadn't set the > root password. (Luckily, he used his machine only for web access, so > a reinstall was not too traumatic.) When setting up a machine for others, I have learnt to write the root password on the machine inside the case. Here, non-owning users will never see it but I know I can always retrieve it. Cheers, Kev
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