Re: {stupid pet tricks}blown Root passwd FIXED!
this did the trick Thanks!!!!!!
At 02:00 PM 9/14/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>> maybe im doing something wrong.. can you elaborate how when i boot from the
>> rescue disk mount the Hdd without it booting up to login state?
>> maybe a little hand holding is in order
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>you don't want to use the boot disk that you made while installing, but
>resc1440 itself. If you overwrote it during install, you need to
>download it again.
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>When the first screen to choose mono or video comes up, hit alt-f2 to
>get to the console.
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>then
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> mount /dev/hda1 /target (assuming you're on hda1)
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>ae /target/etc/shadow
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>and the first entry will look something like
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>root:0ydgf0ldjehtbp10479:0:99999:7:::
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>change it to
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>root::0:99999:7:::
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>and root will have no password.
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>however, writing the resc1440 will be difficult if you don't have a user
>account that can write to /dev/fd0; you will probably need to boot into
>dos and use rawrite2, or use another computer to make the disk.
>
>rick
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