On Wed, 19 Jun 2024, Tom Horsley wrote:

On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:24:48 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:

My usual strategy is to boot a live disk
and to edit the passwd and shadow files directly.

My strategy is to boot a live cd, then chroot into the
copy on disk and use the passwd command. Maybe that
would work better?

I'll try that.
Since it has worked for you,
I infer that you did an su first,
otherwise I'd expect passwd to ask for a password.


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