On Fri, 1999-09-24 at 08:32:28 -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Here is how you do it: > reboot and at lilo prompt type > linux init=/bin/sh > > This will rop you into shell. In there, > mount -n -o remount rw > > Then edit the /etc/passwd file and blank out root password field. (The > second field). Or do that to shadow file, if you have one. > Then > sync > and reboot. You should be able to get in without password so you can > change it then > Andrew
I tried the commands as written, but the mount command produced the error message mount: can't find rw in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab Did you mean mount -n -o remount,rw /dev/xxxxx where /dev/xxxxx should be replaced by the filesystem to be mounted? With that, everything went just fine. Keith
