On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 23:35 -0600, Steve wrote: > Finally out of desperation I tried this, > > touch ~/.sudo_as_admin_successful > sudo /bin/bash > su root > passwd "mynewpassword"
Are you sure you didn't just have something like: "%somegroup ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL" in the sudoers file and the user also happened to be in "somegroup"? This will do anything with sudo and *not* prompt for a password. In which case, one could simply do a `passwd root` and set/change root's password as long as they were in the "somegroup". Gabe /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
