Hello,

I forgot my root password and recovered it the following way:

Booted my system with a Knoppix Live CD.

Mounted my root partition

Edited the following files:

/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow

so that the line containing root looked the following way:

passwd ->  root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
shadow ->  root::::

Now I can login and root has no password.

Now I wanted to set the root password the following way:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# passwd
Changing password for user root.
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: User not known to the underlying authentication module
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#

And I get the message: 
User not known to the underlying authentication module



Hmmm? What is wrong?

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