Type "linux single" at lilo if linux is the name.
at the # prompt type "passwd"
Justin Georgeson wrote:
>
> Chris Johnson wrote:
> >
> > Any suggestions on what to do to recover my pwds and
> > login, and steps to take to detect data corruption and
> > also to diagnose how fast I can safely overclock are
> > requested.
>
> Get a boot disk (like tom's root boot) and mount your root drive after
> booting off the floppy. then blank out the password field in
> /etc/passwd. Then boot off the hdd and login without a password, then
> run passwd to change it. I'm not sure if using shadow passwords makes
> this not work, maybe edit /etc/shadow instead of /etc/passwd.
>
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