Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Brett Curtis
put in the live disk again mount drives and chroot to your gentoo install then issue the passwd root command. On 4/19/05, Maerlyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hy, I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with passwd after the

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 16:35, Maerlyn wrote: Hy, I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works. Is there any way to recover my root

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread A. R.
Hello, Have you done the following? 1. Boot with the live cd. 2. Mount your / partition somewhere (/mnt/gentoo) most likely. 3. Run chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash 4. Run passwd to change the password of the root account. 5. Reboot (without the livecd). FWIW, Whenever I forget the root password

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Maerlyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hy, thanks everyone, I did the livecd-mount-chroot-passwd way, and it worked. Maerlyn -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 11:34 -0300, Mauro Faccenda wrote: Maerlyn wrote: Hy, I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works. Is