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much easier solution boot up and at lilo prompt type linux single rw init=/bin/bash now let it boot up, at the prompt type passwd and reset the root password this has worked for me on suse, redhat, mandrake, caldera and slackware On Tuesday 28 May 2002 12:57 pm, tabanna wrote:
On Tue, 28 May 2002, William Dulyea wrote:
Over the weekend I was helping my brother
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Yeah, boot the system with the floppy and choose to start the rescue system. (There are alot of ways to do this, some like the cdrom rescue boot) So boot up, it will say "Yomamma" or "Rescue", and you won't have to have a password. Then say your / partition is /dev/hda3, do mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /mnt (use reiserfs if required) then vi /mnt/etc/shadow and find the root entry and delete everything between the first 2 colons after the root entry. When done it should look like root::100112:......... JUST MAKE THE FIRST 2 COLONS ADJACENT hit : w to write and exit vi reboot, and you will get a root prompt but not need a password. You're back.......just enter passwd to set a new root passwd and then change all user passwords back to something you remember. ...................
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