Re: Root password

[Keith Harbaugh <harbaugh@math.georgetown.edu>]

On Fri, 1999-09-24 at 08:32:28 -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> Here  is how you do it:
> reboot and at lilo prompt type 
> linux init=/bin/sh
> 
> This will rop you into shell. In there, 
> mount -n -o remount rw
> 
> Then edit the /etc/passwd file and blank out root password field. (The
> second field). Or do that to shadow file, if you have one.
> Then 
> sync
> and reboot. You should be able to get in without password so you can
> change it then
> Andrew

I tried the commands as written,
but the mount command produced the error message
   mount: can't find rw in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
Did you mean
   mount -n -o remount,rw /dev/xxxxx
where /dev/xxxxx should be replaced by the filesystem to be mounted?
With that, everything went just fine.

Keith