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.ht

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 muc

[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 g

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[newbie] Big5 or Mandrake in the land of Formosa.

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