On Saturday 10 September 2005 11:43 am, Mel Walters wrote: > I remember doing this and got my root password reset. I am not very sure > of what you meant by clear out the root password. > If you left the line en-tact, taking away password info so you have > (in /etc/shadow root:::::::: left, this is how I remember doing it. > Make sure you change the password immediately. > I know you did it this way, but someone new to Linux may take the words > effectively clear the root password as removing the line. This would not > work. Then you could go back to the copy (backup) file you made.
Sorry, I wasn't clear about this. the directions I read said to edit the content between the first pair of colons. Elsewhere I was directed to delete everything in 'shadow' leaving root:::: I am paranoid about any changes to important files and I made copies of both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow before I edited them. This is a pretty common practice for me. I like having something to fall back on. Thanks for calling me on that Mel, I would hate to mislead someone in worse shape than myself and cause them to really break their system. -- Jarrod Major GPG Fingerprint: 4556 EFA8 EC69 7C54 EE33 C881 2C7C 0E10 2439 231E
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