On Tuesday 14 August 2001 12:21 am, tabanna wrote:
If I understand the above correctly, you are unable to log in as root, correct? If so, then how is Martin's suggestion of changing /etc/shadow going to help you? You would need to be logged in as root to be able to edit this file. Or am I mistaken?
~ you can use a boot disk { say, Tom's Killer Boot Disk } { http://www.toms.net/rb/ } then, mount the / root partition on, say, /mnt next, use vi to edit the password
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You're right, it didn't. Could not do it by mounting / either. There must be a trick to editing a file mounted read-only that I do not know. I am not that familiar with vi. However, I took this as an *opportunity* to convert back to ext2fs instead of reiserfs, so I can use noflushd again. It does not work well with reiserfs as far as I have read, and I am tired of this whining Maxtor HD. Oh sure, they're quiet when they're new, but this one emits a whine just below the level of a dog whistle. So, thanks to all, but I'm back freshly-installed (after backup) and I'm off to get a copy of Tom's Boot Disk, in case I pull a bone-headed stunt like this again (which I will). Tom -- TRBishop tb64710@alltel.net SuSE 7.2 Pro