You could probably boot your system using a live cd or a floppy distro. But, then you would have to edit your password and shadow file....also, you'll have to use something like perl to encrypt a new value for your password. Check out the crypt function. This is all ok as long as you are not using some type of a crypto file system...if so then someone else will have to give you pointers. Remember the live systems will have their own /etc directory. You will need to mount your disk to a path lets say /mnt/realdisk so you will need to edit /mnt/realdisk/etc/passwd and /mnt/realdisk/etc/shadow maybe....remember the password must be created using crypt...
That should work...anyone got any easier way of explaining it, or does anyone see a problem with doing it that way? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ms Jenny Chang Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 1:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: expired account Hi everyone, Somehow my account on Red Hat expired, and it instructs me to contact my system administrator. But I really don't know/remember the administrator username/password. Is there a way in which I can create another account with rescue mode? And find out administrator account info? Thanx. Jenny. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
