>On 8/29/02 9:58 PM, G-Books at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>  In order to use this fix you MUST be logged in to an account that
>>  has Administrative Priviledges on that system.
>>
>>  Here is what to do:
>>
>>  Open a terminal window and type in these commands
>>  1. cd /etc
>>  2. mount -t ufs -a
>>  3. sudo passwd root
>>  4. your password
>>  5. the new root password (be sure to write this one down or something :) )
>
>Thanks! This worked without a hitch!
>
>Kind of uncanny that it appears online not 2 days after my question...
>someone up there in Mac heaven must be watching out for me. :)

Um, what I gave you works too. No one *EVER* responded to that. Makes 
me wonder if I should bother writing responses to Unix things when no 
one bothers to read my answer. Maybe I should just throw my servers 
and TiBook away and stop using X. I could go back to 7.6 on my Quarda 
900.

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