-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/2012 04:01 AM, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 22:28 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: > Seems like you're all (the different solutions offered by various people) doing much more than you need to. If you do manage to boot into the single user mode, you will typing in a terminal as the root user. All you have to do, next, is use the "passwd" command by itself, and enter a new password. There's no need to su or sudo, nor edit any files where passwords are stored.
One other small point - if you do edit the password files, you should use vipw. If you do not like using vi as an editor, you can specify the editor to use by setting $VISUAL or $EDITOR... Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk8xMcwACgkQqbQrVW3JyMR/ZwCfRlOzwQoWWIXy2Ym5R/1wvgV3 TaYAnivPcR5d2YeYihCg4ux/4gSM0oa0 =2Ycd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
