The password field in /etc/passwd should have an x in it to indicate that
/etc/shadow is being used for passwords. Put the "x" back in, then change
the password. You can verify that it worked by looking for the encrypted
password in /etc/shadow.
JamesS
At 06:34 PM 5/19/02 -0400, Michael Leone wr
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 18:00, Michael Leone wrote:
>
> Time to try editing the etc.lrp, and then re-inserting it onto the
> diskette.
I edited out the root password from /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and
/etc/shadow-, and then recopied the newly made etc.lrp to my diskette.
(so there were no characte
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 16:34, Ant Ken wrote:
> hello
>
> i have had trouble like this before what i did was this
> get your boot floppy, or if your running from a hard disk, a copy of
> syslinux.cfg
> edit it and change the time out value to something like 5
> the default is:
> timeout 0
>
>
hello
i have had trouble like this before what i did was this
get your boot floppy, or if your running from a hard disk, a copy of
syslinux.cfg
edit it and change the time out value to something like 5
the default is:
timeout 0
this seemed to work on mine
caution dont edit the file in windo
