Re: forgot root password AOL

2002-02-19 Thread Michel Loos
Em Ter, 2002-02-19 às 00:43, Karsten M. Self escreveu: on Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:45:37PM -0300, Michel Loos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Em Seg, 2002-02-18 às 20:28, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson escreveu: Remove root's password from /etc/shadow in text editor of choice. This did not work last

forgot root password AOL

2002-02-18 Thread CAPTFRED
Please advise

Re: forgot root password AOL

2002-02-18 Thread Michel Loos
Em Seg, 2002-02-18 às 20:28, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson escreveu: On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please advise When you boot, it'll say LILO for a second before it says Loading Linux.. Hit CTRL when it says LILO. You'll get LILO boot: Type in linux init=/bin/bash

Re: forgot root password AOL

2002-02-18 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 18 Feb 2002, Michel Loos wrote: This did not work last time I tried (2.4.17), so I did the following at that stage: copied my normal user line of shadow to the first line and changed the username to root, deleted the old root line. This way you can login as root with your normal user

Re: forgot root password AOL

2002-02-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:45:37PM -0300, Michel Loos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Em Seg, 2002-02-18 às 20:28, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson escreveu: Remove root's password from /etc/shadow in text editor of choice. This did not work last time I tried (2.4.17), This indicates an error in your