Re: Cannot Login
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:51:43 -0700
"Kevin Ross" <kevin@familyross.net> wrote:
> > From: Kevin Ross [mailto:kevin@familyross.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:45 PM
> >
> >
> > Boot from a Live or Rescue CD, mount your / partition, edit the
> /etc/shadow
> > file, and delete the password for root. Reboot without the CD,
> > and login with root with no password. Immediately create a
> > password with the
> "passwd"
> > command.
> >
>
> Oh, and just in case you're not familiar with editing the shadow
> file, when I say to delete the password for root, I don't mean
> deleting the entire line. I mean removing the encrypted password
> between the first and second ":", so the two colons are right
>next
> to each other. When you're done, the line with "root" in it will
> look something like this:
>
> root::13725:0:99999:7:::
>
> Hope this helps!
> -- Kevin
>
I downloaded and burned a Knoppix 6.0.1 CD, and booted from it. The
hard drives in the machine are SCSI Software RAID, already mounted
by Knoppix ... but I can't read the drives
--
Raquel
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