Re: I screwed up w/ shadow passwords

1999-10-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 02:06:05AM -0700, 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. > > Then I changed the root pa

Re: I screwed up w/ shadow passwords

1999-10-15 Thread Gerhard Kroder
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 shado

I screwed up w/ shadow passwords

1999-10-15 Thread Martin Waller
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. Then I changed the root password after deleting the 'x' in root's /etc/passwords entry. But now, t