You say you were able to mount that system's disk on another system? In that case I think it might also have been possible accomplish it thus:
chroot rootMountPointHere passwd root ...at which point the passwd utility would have allowed you to enter a new password and updated all the appropriate files. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
