>
> Did this today to no avail. It prompts me for a new password, then says
> that tokens are updated. When I log in as root it prompts for password,
> but won't accept anything. When I log in as a user it doesn't even ask
> for a password and refeshes the log in screen.
>
> I think I will just reinstall, but it bothers me that something like
> this can happen and I don't know how to fix it.
>
Try to digit
single
at the lilo boot prompt, an if don't works try
to use loadlin instead of lilo:
loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hdXY single
where XY is the leter and the number of partition
contenets / root directory.
then you have a root session and you cab change
root password with linuxconf.
If none of two before works try to download from
http://www.fisica.unige.it/linuxgrp
DOWNLOAD-frame
fs2explorer (or similar) with that you can read from
ext2 partition by windows the shadows password file
manage it and re-write it (you have to abilitate the
write option in progs)
Bye
R.A.Foglietta
