23 May
2011
23 May
'11
00:31
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 20:17, Tony Alfrey
Thanks. I do not have a Live DC for this old, old distro, but I have the original install disk. I am going to back up the entire / to another disk.
I will have to ask you what one does to "null the password"; I will Google also.
Any disc will work. Something like SysRescueCd will work (IMO) better since it won't boot to a GUI. /etc/shadow stores the encrypted password ("shadow passwords") so if you blank it out you should be able to login as root with a null password. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org