Won't passwd ask for old password in a chrooted enviornment? Well, I booted off the Gentoo CD and edited the passwd file to have no password something like root::0:0: ding ding ding.
Problem solved. Thanks Sukrit On 11/25/05, Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24/11/05 23:25 +0530, Sukrit wrote: > > Hi Listers, > > > > I managed to fsckup @ the password prompt, either I plain entered the > > wrong pass or I did entered it at the un chrooted terminal. > > > > Either way I am locked out of my brand new gentoo installation. What do > > I do to claim it back, I have no users created and I don't want to > > re-install. > > Reboot into single user mode, or off the boot CD and chroot(1) into your > Gentoo install and then run passwd(1). > > Devdas Bhagat > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
