On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 01:13:15PM +0200, Corry Opdenakker wrote: > does anyone know how I can reset the password for root? > A while a go someone told me that this is possible by using the install-boot > disc or cd's.
Delete the second field from root's entry in /etc/passwd (/etc/shadow if you're using shadow passwords - you'll have an "x" in the passwd file if you are). This will remove root's password, and you can reset it using passwd. A safer thing to do is to generate a new crypted password and directly replace the password, but unless you're on-line when you do this I wouldn't worry about it. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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