On Tuesday 01 March 2005 10:49 am, Mike McMullin wrote:
Someone I know who's running (a pirate version of) XP and 9.1 upgraded to an USB keyboard. It worked fine until he started to trash what he thought was garbage in his XP, and lost his USB. I suggested that he try 9.1 instead, but he seems to have forgotten his password, and has gone out and replaced his USB keyboard and mouse with PS/2 jobs. I'll try and bring a copy of Knoppix the next time I see him, and see how that handles the USB hardware. AFAIK: Knoppix should work fine. You can always reset your Linux password by booting into a rescue disk. There are a couple of ways (after booting the media): Mount the root file system of the installed system onto some free directory, say /mnt
-------------------------- chroot to that directory then change passwords using passwd. Example: $ mount /dev/hda1 /mnt $ chroot /mnt $ passwd Changing password for root. New password: ... ----------------- Another way is to simply edit /etc/shadow, and empty out the root password: root::12843:0:10000:::: -----^---< The password follows the first colon. Then unmount /mnt and boot the installed system. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9