good :-)
Yvan Gutknecht wrote:
Hi Neill,
you were almost right, instead of * you have to enter x in the passwd file, then you can change the root password again.
But thanks anyway, you save my day and brought me on the right way.
that's the way it works:
change passwd to be
root:x: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:::
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Datum: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:00:10 +0200
Von: Yvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
An: [email protected]
Betreff: [newbie] Re: After recovering root password
Hello Neill,
I'll try it. It's on my company linux laptop not on my computer here at
home, so I can't try it now but I'll give a feedback to the list.
Thanks for now and have a nice remaining of the week end
Cheers
Yvan
On 7.07.2006, you wrote:
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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