Re: problems with command su

2004-12-07 Thread Jim Nelson
Vladimir E. Rodriguez wrote: Hello again, I tried this thing but it doesn't work. Also I checked that my user vladimir belongs to the group wheel, it's true, but I can't log with su. Please someone could help me? Thanks Vladimir Last time I had to unlock a box, I booted into Knoppix, mounted the

Re: problems with command su

2004-12-07 Thread Vladimir E. Rodriguez
Hello again, I tried this thing but it doesn't work. Also I checked that my user vladimir belongs to the group wheel, it's true, but I can't log with su. Please someone could help me? Thanks Vladimir On Tuesday 07 December 2004 13:21, joy merwin monteiro wrote: > Hi, > > when you are at the LI

Re: problems with command su

2004-12-07 Thread joy merwin monteiro
Hi, when you are at the LILO bootloader prompt type single as an argument to the kernel. after it boots , type passwd to change your password. should work, try it out and tell us... The same should work on grub as well, there is an option to edit kernel parameters before booting. try it out. r

problems with command su

2004-12-07 Thread Vladimir E. Rodriguez
Hello, I'm new user in linux community. I have installed in my computer mandrake linux 10.0 Sometime ago it was working normal without problems. After that I changed the root password, always that I want to change something in the configuration of the system, I run su from other user (vladimir)