On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 08:18:11 -0500, "Bryan Phinney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Monday 05 January 2004 06:40 am, Kristian Davies wrote: > > Mandrake 9.2 Paranoid > > > > Hi, > > > > I have installed Mandrake with paranoid setting(so cant login with su > > on console), my user account has expired. > > > > How do i recover the user account? > > Insert the Mandrake CD or DVD and boot from that. At the prompt, hit > F1 and enter rescue on the boot command line. When the ncurses screen > comes up, choose Maintenance mode and that will put you in at single > user console. Issue the "passwd username" and it should prompt you to > enter a new password for that user account. You would be advised to > change the warning period to give your user accounts a longer period of > time to change passwords before they expire. I would recommend 14 days > if you are going to run in paranoid mode.
When I boot from CD, press F1, type rescue, there is no selection for Maintenence. Not sure what "ncurses" is, but the selections include mounting volumes, fixing bootloaders, etc. There is a "command prompt" selection. I assume that's what I want. But the "passwd" program isn't found. Command is not recognized. BTW, I'm not the one with the original problem, just trying the procedure. :)
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