Re: "forgot password" workarounds not working

[Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net>]

Haines Brown wrote:

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> I've seen the directions for editing /etc/shadow, but also the warning
> that this is dangerous and need not be done. Therefore my second
> approach, which has the advantage of not depending on a cd drive or
> live CD (not too sure what that is). It is supposed to work, but it
> didn't for me. 

A LiveCD is a release of an OS which is designed to boot and run
from a CD, without requiring installation on a hard drive.

Mike
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