paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> I used Tom's rescue boot disk to get into the system and configure LILO
FYI you can boot on the cdrom and type "rescue", this is a rescue system.
Pretty good. With reiserfs and local keyboards and whatever.
[...]
> However, upon rebooting the stupid computer wouldn't accept the new
> passwd when I tried to log in (and no, it ain't a caps problem :o) ).
Nor a locale keyboard?
> Fine. So I booted into single mode again and took out the password from
> root's entry in the /etc/passwd file. Rebooted the machine. This time
> when I entered root as the user name it was rejected immediately. No
> chance to put in the password.
Security level issue?
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