I have a laptop that was setup for a family member using a Zenwalk install. The laptop doesn't have a functional CD reader and I don't have the root password. I am able to easily pull the hard drive and mount it as a USB external drive to my Ubuntu system. I can see the passwd and shadow files and the lilo.conf file. Is there an easy way to edit the shadow password file to set a good password for root? Or might it be easier to modify the lilo.conf file to get into single user mode and set a new password from there?
The current root password line in the shadow password file is: root:$1$yDo/7BS7$y8McHMKPj3hTRnSl.HTrO/:13427:0::::: Can I just remove the string "$1$yDo/7BS7$y8McHMKPj3hTRnSl.HTrO/" to edit out the password or do I need to replace it with something else? -Alex _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
