Re: root - password wiped ?? how ??
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu> writes:
> > Thanx but nope, thats not the problem, sysklog 1.3-30 is installed and
> > permissions
>
> > Any other takers >;0)
>
> I'll take another swing :)
>
> Could something have switched you to/from shadow passwrds? This
> is another popular way to loose your root password :)
>
> If you're not using shadow passwords, just boot from a rescue
> disk, edit the password file, delete the root password, and reboot.
> You will have no password for root, and can now login as root
> and rest it.
>
> I assume it's possible to eidt your password frile from a rescue
> disk if you have shadow passwords, but it bats me how. Maybe
> delete the passwd for root in /etc/shadow?
You just need to delete the "x" in the password field in /etc/passwd -
that causes /etc/shadow to not be used for that account.
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