> 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.
"*" does not mean nothing, "*" means do not let anyone log into this account. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
