On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:33:37 -0600 Richard Atcheson <ratcheson@earthlink.net> wrote:
The question now is How do I get into my machine to change/add the corect password for root?
(1) Boot with a rescue disk if you got out of Linux. (2) Mount the root partition. (3) Delete the root password in /<mount_point>/etc/shadow (2nd field) and set the new password with passwd. If you just want to keep your old password, you can just cut and paste the root lines in your backups of /<mount_point>/etc/password and /<mount_point>/etc/shadow into the new files (make sure you delete any existing root lines in the new files first). Charles -- "The move was on to 'Free the Lizard'" -- Jim Hamerly and Tom Paquin (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)