If you are using LILO: 1) At the boot splash screen, type ^X (CTRL+X) 2) Then type : linux 1 3) When it has finished loading, type : passwd and follow the instructions.
If you use GRUB 1) At the splash screen, go to the editor mode. 2) In the kernel line, add `1' to the end (without quotes) and boot 3) Follow step 3 above 4) Remove `1' from the line when you boot again On Friday 18 July 2003 08:09, you wrote: > Hello Everybody > > A friend of mine is facing a very peculiar problem. He bought an > assembled system and asked the vendor to install Red Hat Linux 8.0. The > vendor claiming he has not even heard the name before (some egghead > living in caves before he started assembling PCs) reluctantly agreed. > The machine was shipped and this friend of mine could not find time to > work on it for a full one week. (Don�t ask me how he resisted the > temptation). Now when he dialed up the vendor to find out the password > for the root account, the vendor has himself forgotten it. We tried all > simple combinations but of no avail. > > Can anyone in the list provide some tips or a way out of this situation? > Thanking you in advance. > > Kind Regards > > Vaibhav Sharma > __________________________________________________ > Thirty years from now it won't matter what shoes you wore, > how your hair looked or what jeans you bought. > > What will matter is what you learned and how you used it. > > Contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
