On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Panuganty, Ramesh wrote: > Folks, I have a problem. I cannot login to my debian system using the > root password but I can login using other users logins. Is there > anything I can do to regain the ability to login as root other than > rebuilding the server.Thanks for the help in advance.
Use either something like tomsrtbt to boot in, or reboot, and when you get LILO, get a prompt and type "linux init=/bin/sh" You'll have to mount --remount=rw / to do any writing. Clear the password for root in /etc/passwd (or /etc/shadow if you use shadow passwords). -- Baloo
