Martin Waller wrote: > > Hello, > > I have on old 486 on which I installed debian (slink) (any excuse), but > forgot my root password. So I went in and edited /etc/passwords, where > there were 'x's fro the password fields. [...] > How do I fix this?
these 'x's are ther because you have shadow installed, so you need to delete rootpassword in /etc/shadow as you have done in passwd. set back password in passwd to the 'x'. that should work. you may take a look to manpages for shadow (man -k shadow), especially to pconv/pwunconv and shadowconfig to swithc between shadow/passwd support. gerhard
