I screwed up w/ shadow passwords

["Martin Waller" <polytope_@hotmail.com>]

Hello,

I have on old 486 on which I installed debian (slink) (any excuse), but 
forgot my root password.  So I went in and edited /etc/passwords, where 
there were 'x's fro the password fields.

Then I changed the root password after deleting the 'x' in root's 
/etc/passwords entry.

But now, the password only works under xdm login.  Under console login, _no_ 
password is required.

How do I fix this?

Martin

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