I screwed up w/ shadow passwords

[Martin Waller]

Hello,

I have on old 486 on which I installed debian (slink) (any excuse), but 
forgot my root password.  So I went in and edited /etc/passwords, where 
there were 'x's fro the password fields.


Then I changed the root password after deleting the 'x' in root's 
/etc/passwords entry.


But now, the password only works under xdm login.  Under console login, _no_ 
password is required.


How do I fix this?

Martin

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Re: I screwed up w/ shadow passwords

[Gerhard Kroder]

Martin Waller wrote:
 
 Hello,
 
 I have on old 486 on which I installed debian (slink) (any excuse), but
 forgot my root password.  So I went in and edited /etc/passwords, where
 there were 'x's fro the password fields.
[...] 
 How do I fix this?


these 'x's are ther because you have shadow installed, so you need to
delete rootpassword in /etc/shadow as you have done in passwd. set back
password in passwd to the 'x'. that should work. you may take a look to
manpages for shadow (man -k shadow), especially to pconv/pwunconv and
shadowconfig to swithc between shadow/passwd support.

 gerhard

Re: I screwed up w/ shadow passwords

[Ben Collins]

On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 02:06:05AM -0700, Martin Waller wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I have on old 486 on which I installed debian (slink) (any excuse), but 
 forgot my root password.  So I went in and edited /etc/passwords, where 
 there were 'x's fro the password fields.
 
 Then I changed the root password after deleting the 'x' in root's 
 /etc/passwords entry.
 
 But now, the password only works under xdm login.  Under console login, _no_ 
 password is required.
 
 How do I fix this?

Put the x back. What you really need to do is simply run passwd as root. 
This
wont require knowing the previous password.

Ben