On 18 Feb 2002, Michel Loos wrote: > This did not work last time I tried (2.4.17), so I did the following at > that stage: copied my normal user line of shadow to the first line and > changed the username to root, deleted the old root line. > > This way you can login as root with your normal user password and of > course change it thereafter. Ooh, that's good to know. Thanks for the update! -- Baloo