On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:55 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: You have to re boot with disk1 of your Mandrake install disks and type "rescue". Then when the system comes up you will need to remount the partition that has your "/etc" dir on it in read/write mode. Go in to the /etc dir and edit the "/etc/shadow" file and delete the password portion of the root user and save the file. This makes root without a password. Reboot and reset your password.
Ralph > On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: > > Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any > > windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user > > be reset. Say if you forgot it? > > > > James S. Lawson > > Network Administrator > > The only way that I know of to do this is to bring the computer up in > Single User mode and reset root password from there. You should be able to > do that by putting options in Lilo at boot to bring up Linux in single user > mode. > > If you have password protected Lilo, I am not sure that you can reset the > root password without some type of reinstall.
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