That dang msg, and changing res...

2000-03-29 Thread viri-
When ever I log onto GNome I get a warning if I'm root.  "I could damage files in file manager" but file manager crashes before I get to it, and how can I get rid of that msg.  Also other things seem to crash a lot.  When I open some (most) txt files in gEdit it crashes etc.  Do I need to reins

Re: How to get root password

2000-03-29 Thread Andrew E. Mileski
Cristian Paslaru wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, DANG, Muoi wrote: > Yes. Its the same way, single mode. > > But also the single mode can be with a password. This is not default. You > can solve with a boot disk, or boot from cd. If you are in this point send > me an email. If your single mode has

Re: How to get root password

2000-03-29 Thread Ivan Jager
Are you sure it isn't someone else's computer you want to break into? :-) Well, I'll trust you. After turning on the computer at the LILO prompt type linux single That will boot in single user mode. There you can type passwd to change the root password. "DANG, Muoi" wrote: > > Hi all, > > I wo

Re: How to get root password

2000-03-29 Thread Cristian Paslaru
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, DANG, Muoi wrote: ->> Hi all, ->> ->> I wonder anyone out there know that way to get root password in case forget ->> it. I have a situation a guy setting up a RedHat5.2 and after few months he ->> left the company without telling the root password. Now we need to log in -

Re: How to get root password

2000-03-29 Thread Mark Shewmaker
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 09:42:41AM +1000, DANG, Muoi wrote: > > In HP-UX it can be done easily by booting to single mode, change a > /etc/password and reboot a computer. Can this be done on RedHat Linux? Use the "single" option at the lilo prompt. For a lilo.conf kernel config labelled "linux"

How to get root password

2000-03-29 Thread DANG, Muoi
Hi all, I wonder anyone out there know that way to get root password in case forget it. I have a situation a guy setting up a RedHat5.2 and after few months he left the company without telling the root password. Now we need to log in but we can't because we don't have password. In HP-UX it c

HP printers

2000-03-29 Thread Eugen Constantinescu
Hello , I need some hints for the following problem. I need the escape sequences for "wide style" setting of the HP printers. I ask here because I suppose that some of you know a lot about the printers :) Thank you! Eugen -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: "Strange" question: what is the purpose of /home !?

2000-03-29 Thread Bryan C. Andregg
On 25 Mar 2000 21:05:54 -0500, Tony Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> /tmp (can always be a symlink to /var/tmp) > >(/var/tmp as /tmp generally works, but I've found that it can have >some unexpected side effectes). Remember though that /var/tmp and /tmp have different definitions when it come

Re: /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm

2000-03-29 Thread Alan Shutko
"Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This changes behavior radically from 6.1 for no apparent reason. Call me > silly, but I was hoping that my system would work basically the same > after upgrading. ;-) I think that's part of the Debian backspace stuff mentioned in the

Re: RedHAt's SU the mother of all trojan horses

2000-03-29 Thread Bryan C. Andregg
On 27 Mar 2000 17:22:56 -0500, JF Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is not the only problem. There is another one in the fact that >every program you run could either modify your .bash_profile or modify >the environment+silently fork a shell. The net effect is that if one >day you do an