On Sunday 09 March 2003 6:43 am, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > Now when you log in as root, it will not ask for a password. > > excuse my rudeness but isnt that a Bad Thing?
Well, hopefully you'll create a new one. ;-) The idea is to get into /etc/shadow and delete the hashed root password so you can reset it, because you lost it, remember? this is how you reset a lost root password without using a rescue disk. Another trick is once you gain write access to /etc/shadow is to copy over your hashed root password from another machine, where you know the root password. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder www.tuxcomputing.com this message brought to you by Libranet 2.7 and Kmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
