On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Keith Bowerman wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Paul Sladen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > find the password hash in '/etc/shadow' and delete it
> 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.
The password hash is the "random looking symbols" in the second
column (everything between the ':' colons). Try making this:
keith:aefAWffp98fA2:nnnnn:m:ooooo:p:::
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
look like:
keith::nnnnn:m:ooooo:p:::
Hope that helps,
-Paul
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