IPL the system from your initial installation tape (kernel, parmfile, initrd) mount your DASD edit the /mountpoint/etc/passwd file to remove the password for root unmount your DASD re-IPL from DASD sign on as root and change the password to something known slap the hands of everyone involved.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Kippers Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Root passwd Hello, we have been testing s390 linux on separate lpar and we have ipl off disk. There were few of us testing with root id and changed the password....and now we don't know the root password.... :( therefor how do we reset root password ? tks - Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
