Mohan:
When you boot to linux single you get the bash #. You are root at this point
and simply typing "passwd" at that prompt and enter allows you to change
your root password. Seems like an easy way for other users to easily change
the root password but in an multiuser area there are other ways of course to
not allow this simple change of root password. But this is the easy out of
the box or default installation way of doing it.
Eddie Strohmier
Bonwell Globalnet
www.bonwell.com
-----Original Message-----
From: eagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 9:46 PM
Subject: password's
>hello,
>I wanted to know that if someone forgets the root password and even
>forgets the password which has been assigned for single user mode is
>there any way to get in to the system then(I am not asking about the
>normal user but the super user i.e, as a root) if so please tell me how
>.
>And i would like to thank the list 'cause due to this I came to know of
>the book
>linux in a nutshell
>it is a very good book for linux user's
>
>hoping for a quick reply
>mohan
>
>
>in the world without walls and fences who needs windows and gates
>
>
>
>--
>To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe"
>as the Subject.
--
To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe"
as the Subject.
