-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 20 August 2003 16:55, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: > > Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any > > windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user > > be reset. Say if you forgot it? > > > > James S. Lawson > > Network Administrator > > The only way that I know of to do this is to bring the computer up in > Single User mode and reset root password from there. You should be able to > do that by putting options in Lilo at boot to bring up Linux in single user > mode. > > If you have password protected Lilo, I am not sure that you can reset the > root password without some type of reinstall.
You can mount the filesystem from a rescue cd like knopix and remove the passwords from /etc/passwd and shadow ;-) Mike - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Amsterdam Function : ICT Consultant - ------------- Dont worry, we always have a backup of you ------------------ PGP Fingerprint: 7FFB 828C 2CE6 E996 2308 B0B3 E445 6E8B D9D1 5BAB -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Q5XzOOuo8bwGbFQRAkqJAKC+8EM75hB1KnQ+giCZoWUlMOVwNwCgyncc bw1nrPdkWE6UvPOf48h0b4Q= =/Djr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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