On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 18:00, Michael Leone wrote:
> 
> Time to try editing the etc.lrp, and then re-inserting it onto the
> diskette.

I edited out the root password from /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and
/etc/shadow-, and then recopied the newly made etc.lrp to my diskette.
(so there were no characters between the "::" after "root", in all 3
files). This worked, and allowed me to boot with no root password.

So, first thing, I decided to change the root password to something
else. So I issued a "passwd" command, and it said it was successfully
changed. However, when I log out, and log back in, root still has no
password.

I've checked; the floppy is not write-protected.

Thoughts, anyone?

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