According to Mike: While burning my CPU.
>
> On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Richard Adams wrote:
>
> > Hi Kenneth Stephen. et all.
> >
> > 1.1 Help! I can't remember my root password!
> > What you will need to do, is a re-boot. If you are the administrator it
> > would be prudent to warn users that are logged in. Say something like you
> > have to do an emergency maintenance.
> >
> > [
> > You do not even need to reboot, if you do the System will automaticly send
> > a message to all connecties/users that "The System is going down".
> > Even using 'init 1' will still send other users the same message.
> >
> You *do* need to send users a warning. They system will send a message to
> all users that it is going down, and they will be chucked off immediately.
> It is curtious to give them at least 10-15 minutes notice before chucking
> them off. You can do this with options to shutdown (which I can't
> remember right now...)
Well i must agree there.
'shutdown +15'
Will result in a message being sent to all consoles.
Broadcast message from root (tty1) Thu Sep 3 22:59:31 1998...
The system is going DOWN to maintenance mode in 15 minutes !!
>
> > Ok, Now how do you do it.
> >
> > 1: first think up a new password.
> > 2: reboot the machine
> >
> > No dont reboot, just use 'init 1' which has the same effect but does not
> > reboot the machine.
>
> Um. You can't do init 1 unless you are root in which case you can change
> your password just by editing /etc/shadow (or passwd on an unshadowed
> system) and deleting the password, then use passwd to set a new one.
>
If you read the text of the question the impression is given that "root" has
forgotten his passwd, which is why i explaned about root and init 1, however
you do not realy need to do either reboot or init 1, as you correctly point
out. Futher more, on Redhat systems a user cannot change his passwd when he
has forgotten his old passwd, i would imagen that would be the same on other
distributions.
> > 1.7
> > do a 'ps aux' to and look through the output to see which line corresponds
> > to the process you are trying to kill. The second column on the relevant
> > line is the process id. Now do a 'kill -9 <process id>'.
> >
> > [
> > do 'ps ax | grep command' Where command is the name typed which caused the
> > problem. (Saves having to sift thro' all those prosecces).
>
> There is a command 'killall' which comes with many distributions. You can
> do 'killall process_name' to kill all processes with that name. A word of
> warning though - in Solaris and some other unices, killall kills all
> processes you own...
I think we all need to remember one thing, its a "Newbie faq" so telling
folks to killall could have disasterous effects, remember most newbies use
'root' to start with.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> QOTD:
> "I drive my car quietly, for it goes without saying."
>
QQOTD:
"Doctor help me, i only have 59 seconds left to live"
'Reply from the doctor'
"Just a minute please"
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Regards Richard.
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