On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 10:02:23PM -0500, Keith & Cecile Schooley wrote: > This is going to sound like an asinine problem, but here goes ... > > My machine seems to have forgotten my password. > > Yes, I said my machine. Not me. I've had it burned into my consciousness, > through booting up about a hundred times (successfully) today. > > I finally got a problem with getting my video card recognized, but when I > tried to log back in, I couldn't get in either by my user name or as root. > > Any suggestions on why this would happen? > > Is there any possible way to deal with this, other than to reinstall the > whole system? > > Grace and peace, I've had that happen with xdm before, and it was fine after a reboot. Is it xdm? Can you get into a virtual terminal? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@storm.ca> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://24.43.42.96/email.phtml
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