Thank you very much!

That did the job.

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Brian Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 16:45 -0600, Keith Bailey wrote:
> > I've been setting up ssh key authentication for our development server
> > and managed to configure a normal linux user account to work with two
> > client machines in the office.
> >
> > For enhanced security I locked the normal account with "passwd -l
> > user" so I could only access the account with ssh key authentication.
> > But I also unwittingly did the same for root.
> >
> > Now I'm unable to access the root user and can only access the normal
> > user through ssh key authentication.
> >
> > Is there a solution for this without a total re-install?
>
> One way to do it is to boot the rescue cd and chroot to your install.
> Once you're there you can run passwd to fix your file.
>
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