On Thursday 03 Oct 2002 4:40 am, Ma Anguo wrote: > I upgraded the security level of my mandrake 8.2 box from the lowest to the > intermediate (3) level. > > Now I don't have access to any user, including root, because my passwords > are all expired. I couldn't su to root and couldn't shutdown the box > (ctr+alt+del didn't respond). I was stuck with the graphical login and had > to press the reset button :-( , messing the filesystem... > SNIP
If in the future you get 'locked out' in any way. Avoid pressing that reset button. The graceful way to restart a Linux system is described here http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/82/en/ref.html/ts-system-freeze.html Secondly you will have much less risk of corrupting your drive with an unexpected reset if you use one of the journalling file systems like, Ext3, Reiserfs or XFS If your partitions are currently Ext2 you can upgrade them to Ext3 without damaging your data. derek
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