On reading the password file man page and the shadow one, the following
seems reasonable
(I ain't trying it and locking my root out as well :-)
change passwd to be
root:*:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
where the * hopefully means you can set a password with passwd.
and change the shadow file to be
root::<same number as other fields>:0:99999:7:::
HTH
Neill
Neill Jones wrote:
My passwd file looks like yours with an x after the first : but the
shadow one doesn't
- mine is
root:<password bits here>:<a number here>:0:99999:7:::
Maybe you deleted too much info as I have 8 colons here whereas you
only have 4
The bit which says <a number here> is the same number for all of the
other entries in the shadow file.
HTH
Neill
Yvan Gutknecht wrote:
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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