Hello Siamak, If you have the install boot floppy & a rescue
floppy one may visit the the system & boot into rescue .
then mount the system disk & vi the passwd &/or shadow file
removing the password hash & then umount the system disk &
boot the system into single user mode & change the password
back to its original state & then hit ^D to continue booting
into multiuser mode . Hth, JimL
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
> Sorry for disturbing .
> Yesterday I used useradd to add many temporary accounts that we needed.
> To be sure that they have a password until people come and get their
> password !! I entered temporary passwords to this accounts and I don't
> know these passwords .
>
> Today I understood that when changing passwords once I have not typed the
> login name and therefore typed a password for root .
>
> Sorry but now I have not the root password , this is one of the most
> important servers in this university.
>
> What can I do , please quickly !!!
>
> Regards , Stupid Admin
>
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> Siamak Sarmady ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> P.O.Box 1625,Science College,Shiraz,Iran.
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