Heh, that is because '*' will never match a password hash. Now, if you can't get in with another account, you /must/ boot from a live CD and change the password to something. Note that after you boot from the live CD you will probably have to first remount your root with '-o rw' or you won't be able to save your changes.
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 4:05 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
