On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Piet Boernback wrote:
> I just upgraded Mandrake 6.1 to 7.0b.
> The upgrade went really good, so my compliments on great grafical
> installation. After upgrade process was successfull I restarted the
> computer and booted from my Linux boot flop. The only trouble then was
> my root pass wasn't valid anymore so I was locked out of my own
> system ;) I think the upgrade process had something to do with that.
> The standard solution was to empty pass files after rebooting from a
> rescue disk and manually mounting file system in r/w mode. But I think
> that's a real difficult solution ;)
>
> I don't really know if it's an error on my behalf, but I think the
> upgrade process replaced the password file with an empty one and
> because I performed an upgrade I wasn't able to choose a new password.
> Maybe the fact I boot Linux from a flop messed up the upgrade.
>
> Keep up the good work,
> A.E.N. Brouwer
> The Netherlands
What security level? Have you tryed a user logon?
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