On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Jerry Kubeck wrote: > Can anyone help these folk? > > Thanks > > Jerry > > > >From: "Aaron Hayes - ITSD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Info request > >Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:24:26 -0500 > >X-Priority: 3 (Normal) > >Importance: Normal > > > >Hi Guys, I just stumbled upon your site (great site, I am originally > >from NH, and love to see you're spreading the word about Linux). I > >was wondering if you or anyone you know provides support for Linux > >slackware servers. A friend of mine is running his company's web and > >email server; Linux Slackware 7 running sendmail 8.9 and his > >company's website (Apache 1.39). He has recently gotten locked out > >of the box. None of his user names or passwords will alow him to log > >in. He is basically without support for the server and needs to get > >people back in for their email. A friend of mine thought it sounded > >like he had a corrupt password file and suggested the following; > >download boot (bare.i) and root disks (color.gz) and create them > >using rawrite.exe boot off the floppy and reset the root password. > >I'm not sure if he knows how to do this and was wondering if eitehr > >of you were in the Manchester area and might be interested in a side > >project or side capital. My number is 603-770-6899, cal me with > >questions or ideas, gotta run. > > > >Thanks, > >Aaron
Well, I have no specific experience with Slackware, but if the box uses LILO to boot and has RH-style runlevels (don't know if that is a feature of non-RH/Mandrake distros or not), then at the LILO prompt, he should type: linux single which should boot it into single-user mode, leaving him logged in as root with no password required. Then he does a passwd command to set a new root p/w, and reboots to the usual runlevel; he's in business again and can now adjust the passwords for the other users. Some systems disable the boot-to-single-user-mode-w/o-password feature as a security precaution (on Mandrake 8.x, the Bastille firewall script gives this as an option). If this has been done on that box, he's bumming. :) HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dec 14, 2001 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
