I've had pretty limited luck doing it that way. Maybe I wasn't holding my
mouth right, >grin< but I've tried changing /etc/passwd from
tcameron:x:501:501::/home/tcameron:/bin/bash
to
tcameron::501:501::/home/tcameron:/bin/bash
Removing the x in the second colon delimited field SHOULD set my password to
no password, but (on RH 6 anyway), I still get prompted for a password, and
nothing I enter works.
I've also tried blanking the password field in /etc/shadow as well, to no
avail.
The single user thing works every time, tho.
Thomas Cameron, CNE, MCP, MCT
Three-Sixteen Technical Services, Inc.
Linux training in Austin, Texas! http://training.three-sixteen.com
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Justin
Georgeson
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 1:09 PM
To: Sig Linux
Subject: Re: root pwd corrupted-help.
Chris Johnson wrote:
>
> Any suggestions on what to do to recover my pwds and
> login, and steps to take to detect data corruption and
> also to diagnose how fast I can safely overclock are
> requested.
Get a boot disk (like tom's root boot) and mount your root drive after
booting off the floppy. then blank out the password field in
/etc/passwd. Then boot off the hdd and login without a password, then
run passwd to change it. I'm not sure if using shadow passwords makes
this not work, maybe edit /etc/shadow instead of /etc/passwd.
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