Keith Bowerman wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Paul Sladen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
find the password hash in '/etc/shadow' and delete it
Thanks Paul and Ralph,
Most of what you advise is somewhat over my head. However, I can access
Ubuntu from Xandros but, although I can open /etc/shadow, I couldn't find
"the password hash" (and I'm not really sure what you mean by that
phrase). My user name is shown, followed by a lot of random looking
symbols, but having played about with that, I am still in the same
situation.
Is there anything else you can tell me?
Many thanks,
Keith.
The password hash is the first 13 characters after your username,
starting after the first colon and ending before the second. So after
you'd done it'd look something like
Keith:Ep6mkrtfARe23: then alot of digits (to do with password expiry and
such)
Just remove the random set of characters between the first and second
colons. This will remove the password fromt he account, so you should
set a new one next time you log in.
dsas
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