On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:29:38 -0700 (PDT) [email protected] dijo: >If you have a Live System DVD you can boot off of that and then mount >the file system. Take the password hash out of /etc/shadow, then >reboot. You should have no password and you can just re-add it.
Even easier than using the live DVD, from the login screen I just did Ctrl-F1, which got me to a command line. From the command line I was able to log in as JJJ. (Which I suppose that it is only the login screen that is messed up; my password and account still work.) Once logged in I opened /etc/shadow as root (using nano) and added * in front of the JJJ line. Then I rebooted. Sadly, I should not have done that, because now I can't log in, even at the command line. Whatever I enter for the password (including leaving it blank) results in "incorrect password" error. I get the same error message if I try to log in as root. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
