Re: I forgot the root password, can not maintain my machine.

[Wolftales <wolftales@mail.wolftales.org>]

On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 21:37, Long Li wrote:
>  --- Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au> 的正文：>
> Once you have a root shell, why edit /etc/passwd or
> > /etc/shadow at
> > all?  Why not just use passwd to change the
> > password?
> > 
> > Tom
> 
> Because the passwd command can not be found using that
> way to get the root privilege.  But in the normal
> model, the passwd can be used.  I do not know why? 
> Any other can explain it?
> 

I would suspect that the path has not been configure to get to the
command using this method.  Using a fully qualified path may work.

> > 
> > On  0, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> > > Bob Proulx wrote:
> > > 
> > > >Long Li <lilong76@yahoo.com.cn> [2002-08-03
> > 13:04:21 +0800]:
> > > > 
> > > >
> > > >>>linux init=/bin/bash
> > > >>>     
> > > >>>
> > > >>After I enter linux init=/bin/bash after lilo, I
> > got a
> > > >>console like this:
> > > >>
> > > >>init-2.03#
> > > >>   
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >Great!  You are almost there.
> 
> 
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