On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 08:30:53AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 02:18:40AM -0600, Kent Andersen wrote:
> > I seem to have a problem changed my root password on one of my systems and
> > whamo when I later tried to su root my password doesent work...
> > went through
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 12:59:11PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote:
> I can't remember if sync actually wait on the harddrive but I'm think
> not. Then a doubel-sync and a quick power-off could ruin your hard
> drive.
>
> The thing about syncing twice (I heard 3 times) is something with
> sitting on a
"Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes that should do it...hmm...I seem to remember something about sync'ing
> twice
Remounting as read-only should do all the syncing needed.
I can't remember if sync actually wait on the harddrive but I'm think
not. Then a doubel-sync and a
this did the trick Thanks!!
At 02:00 PM 9/14/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>> maybe im doing something wrong.. can you elaborate how when i boot from the
>> rescue disk mount the Hdd without it booting up to login state?
>> maybe a little hand holding is in order
>
>you don't want to use the boot dis
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 04:27:41PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote:
> "Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> #include
>
> > LILO: linux /bin/sh
>
> [...]
>
> > hopefully once you zap the root password...it SHOULD be sufficent
> > to remount the filesystem read-only and issue halt or
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 11:08:14AM -0600, Kent Andersen wrote:
> actually it would be nice if I knew what the root password was
> my problem is somehow it is trashed. can't log in as root to change it
There is no way you can recover a lost password (exception below), this is
the whole purpose
> actually it would be nice if I knew what the root password was
> my problem is somehow it is trashed. can't log in as root to change it
If you boot from the resc1440 disk, you can mount the filesystem, and
remove the root password entirely. If you have shadowpasswords on, you
will have to
actually it would be nice if I knew what the root password was
my problem is somehow it is trashed. can't log in as root to change it
At 08:06 AM 9/14/1998 -0700, you wrote:
>At the lilo prompt, type "linux single" and you should be able to boot
>from the hard drive as root.
>
>Bob
>
>On Mo
"Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
#include
> LILO: linux /bin/sh
[...]
> hopefully once you zap the root password...it SHOULD be sufficent
> to remount the filesystem read-only and issue halt or reboot
You didn't try this Stephen?
When I blew up my /etc/inittab this was the
At the lilo prompt, type "linux single" and you should be able to boot
from the hard drive as root.
Bob
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Kent Andersen wrote:
> I seem to have a problem changed my root password on one of my systems and
> whamo when I later tried to su root my password doesent work...
> went
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 02:18:40AM -0600, Kent Andersen wrote:
> I seem to have a problem changed my root password on one of my systems and
> whamo when I later tried to su root my password doesent work...
> went through the normal booting from a floppy but cant seem to mount the
> harddrive so I c
I seem to have a problem changed my root password on one of my systems and
whamo when I later tried to su root my password doesent work...
went through the normal booting from a floppy but cant seem to mount the
harddrive so I can edit the passwd file or login as root without pass. any
ideas? Its k
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