Re: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

2000-07-23 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Corry Opdenakker wrote: > Hi people, > > for some dark reason is my rootpassword changed. > > does anyone know how I can reset the password for root? > A while a go someone told me that this is possible by using the install-boot > disc or cd's. > > I hope I will not have

Re: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

2000-07-23 Thread Gerhard Schromm
* Corry Opdenakker writes: > does anyone know how I can reset the password for root? > A while a go someone told me that this is possible by using the install-boot > disc or cd's. Reboot the computer and enter at the LILO-Prompt ' init=/bin/bash' ist the name of the Kernel you want to boot. The

Re: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

2000-07-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 01:51:51PM +0200, Corry Opdenakker wrote: > yes, but there is one additional problem: Currently I'm not logged on as > root. Boot specifying "init=/bin/bash" on the kernel command line. If you have LILO, then say "linux init=/bin/bash" where linux is the name of the LILO

RE: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

2000-07-23 Thread Lukasz Walewski
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Mark Brown > Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 13:38 > To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > Subject: Re: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other > way) > > > On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 01:13:15PM +0200, Corry Op

RE: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

2000-07-23 Thread Corry Opdenakker
ebian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way) On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 01:13:15PM +0200, Corry Opdenakker wrote: > does anyone know how I can reset the password for root? > A while a go someone told me that this is possible by using the i

Re: howto reset root password with setup disk (or some other way)

2000-07-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 01:13:15PM +0200, Corry Opdenakker wrote: > does anyone know how I can reset the password for root? > A while a go someone told me that this is possible by using the install-boot > disc or cd's. Delete the second field from root's entry in /etc/passwd (/etc/shadow if you'