Hi Art, Have you tried to edit /etc/passwd by hand (or with emacs :-), cut your encrypted user password (I assume you have an account on your computer :-) and paste it between the first two colons in the line corresponding to the root account?
Good luck, Marian -----Original Message----- From: Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Saturday, January 23, 1999 5:49 PM Subject: Re: No Password for Root >On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 04:00:09PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: >> On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: >> >> > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 01:39:11PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: >> > > Art, >> > > >> > > What does 'grep root /etc/passwd' show? >> > >> > It shows >> > >> > root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash >> >> Well, that would mean that root has no password and has /bin/bash as its >> shell. >> >> ls -al /etc/passwd should show >> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1441 Nov 10 09:51 /etc/passwd >> >> If root doesn't have write permission, that would prevent it from being >> updated when you run passwd. > > ...which is what it shows. And passwd -S showed >root P 01/23/99 0 99999 7 -1
