On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, tripolar wrote:
> while installing sarge on my parents pc using new installer ( sweet!!) when it > came to typing in root password I typed it twice in same line but didnt > notice until it came for me to verify my typing again. I left the second line > blank thinking when i rebooted there would be no password and could easily > add root password then. > No suck luck. rebooted and tried one instance of root passwd and two instances > of root passwd. no luck. cant log in. > I rebooted there machine with a knoppix cd, mounted the harddrive read-write, > used vi to edit /etc/shadow & /etc/passwd > to reset root password. > still no luck > what am i missing? > Thanks > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can boot into single user mode or do a chroot. chroot is easy. boot up knoppix. goto console (for root access). I'll assume /dev/hda1 is your root. do mount /dev/hda1 /mnt chroot /mnt (you are not root on you debian install) passwd (this will change the root password) exit (done, reboot and takeout cd from drive) (try new root password) -------------------- the other way is to boot into your debian machien with the boot option: S so, Boot: linux s or Boot: knoppix s which ever is the 'label' in your lilo.conf file. -kev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
