SOLVED! Re: No Password for Root
You were very close to the solution, and probably led us to
the last step! In the current development versions of the system,
though, the encrypted passwords go into the "shadow" file. Thank
you for leading us to the solution! Merci, beaucoup!
Art
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 11:40:26AM +0100, Marian Rusek wrote:
> Hi Art,
>
> Have you tried to edit /etc/passwd by hand (or with emacs :-), cut your
> encrypted user password (I assume you have an account on your computer :-)
> and paste it between the first two colons in the line corresponding to the
> root account?
>
> Good luck,
>
> Marian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Art Lemasters <dream@luvmusl.net>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Date: Saturday, January 23, 1999 5:49 PM
> Subject: Re: No Password for Root
>
>
> >On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 04:00:09PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> >> On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 01:39:11PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> >> > > Art,
> >> > >
> >> > > What does 'grep root /etc/passwd' show?
> >> >
> >> > It shows
> >> >
> >> > root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
> >>
> >> Well, that would mean that root has no password and has /bin/bash as its
> >> shell.
> >>
> >> ls -al /etc/passwd should show
> >>
> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1441 Nov 10 09:51 /etc/passwd
> >>
> >> If root doesn't have write permission, that would prevent it from being
> >> updated when you run passwd.
> >
> > ...which is what it shows. And passwd -S showed
> >root P 01/23/99 0 99999 7 -1
>
>
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