Re: [newbie] single user boot: i still cannot change root password
- Original Message - From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If in the future you get 'locked out' in any way. Avoid pressing that reset > button. > The graceful way to restart a Linux system is described here > http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/82/en/ref.html/ts-system-freeze.html > > Secondly you will have much less risk of corrupting your drive with an > unexpected reset if you use one of the journalling file systems like, Ext3, > Reiserfs or XFS > > If your partitions are currently Ext2 you can upgrade them to Ext3 without > damaging your data. > > derek Thanks a lot derek, I'll investigate both points before bed time, when i get back from work tonight. I have been using Linux on and off for about a year, but I still have so much to learn. Blessings, anguo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] single user boot: i still cannot change root password
- Original Message - From: "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > boot from the CD. and at the prompt. type "rescue" without the prompts... > it will then boot the CD install kernel and stuff and when finished you can > type: > chroot /mnt > then change your passwords etc... Thanks ever so much... It worked perfectly this way. :-D Blessings, Anguo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] single user boot: i still cannot change root password
I upgraded the security level of my mandrake 8.2 box from the lowest to the intermediate (3) level. Now I don't have access to any user, including root, because my passwords are all expired. I couldn't su to root and couldn't shutdown the box (ctr+alt+del didn't respond). I was stuck with the graphical login and had to press the reset button :-( , messing the filesystem... I googled the internet to find out how to boot as a single user and change the root password. Here is what I did. lilo> linux runlevel 1 or lilo> linux single didn't help. The file system is messed (du to hard reset) and I am faced with the alternative of either supplying the root password (which I don't have) for maintenance or press ctr+D to do a normal start, which brings me back to the stallemate above... (btw, is there any difference between: linux runlevel 1 , linux init 1 and linux single ?) I then tried: lilo> linux init=/bin/sh rw which gave me an init prompt. I typed su and without asking for a password, I got the root prompt: [root@(none) / ]# I located the passwd command in the filesystem and tried it: # ./passwd root ./passwd: permission denied. I have the same result at the init or root prompt. I then tried to modify the /etc/passwd file to erase the root pass (as I read I could do when I googled the web). vi didn't work but I found a vim-minimum in the filesystem and used it to vi /etc/passwd but the file was read only and any attempt to write it failed. Another note that might be important: the /usr filesystem was not mounted and I didn't mount it because the filesystem got corrupted and trying to mount it would have brought plenty of error messages and I wouldn't have known what to do). So: I lost my root password (not that I forgot it but it unexpectedly got expired!) I could login and su to root as a single user but still could do anything about it! Beside getting me back my user and root password, I'd like to know if it is possible to switch back to a lower security level... I cannot manage my box at a higher level Thanks, Anguo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Robert MacLean banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - what does the -k on man do? - normally i use just man see man man and man apropos anguo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Big5 or Mandrake in the land of Formosa.
Frank Chen banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: | That may be caused from my choosing a font to display my letter, and the | encoding is big5! | Frank Hi Frank! nice to see that there is someone else from the Republic of China on this list using Mandrake (8.0?). Do you use xcin? I don't find it user friendly and the input box is too small so I don't see the characters that I am typing. As a result I avoid typing in chinese... I am getting lazy. Do you know if there is a way to use Unicode instead of big5...? I need unicode badly but xcin doesn't support it. Also, can you print anything in chinese with mandrake 8.0? I can't but Civileme told me that it wouldn't be a problem with 8.1. Do you still use Micrappysoft? I don't anymore. I don't even have it. I use linux mandrake for everything and nothing else for the rest... Do you use mandrake as a web server only? I live in Taichung. Nice to meet you, Anguo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
