On Monday 29 July 2002 10:48, Richard Hayes wrote: > Dear list, > > A have a Mandrake 8.2 box without a floppy or CD > > We have lost the root password. I can boot into single user mode and run > passwd but I get an error saying " pwdb - another process has locked > resource" crital error.
don't run passwd in single user mode, just edit the shadow file and remove the root password (the bunch of charactes between the colon after the word roor and the next colon. Then close down and reboot. You should be able to log in as root without a password and then set a new one. Stay well and happy Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
