Nathan L. Cutler wrote: > > >>>>> "Chuma" == Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Chuma> Today I booted linux and it won't let me in. I log in as > Chuma> root and give it <CR> at password prompt. Keeps rejecting > Chuma> me. > > Chuma> How do I get around this? I hate to think that I have to re > Chuma> install from scratch after all the work I did getting it to > Chuma> where I like it. > > Try booting from your trusty rescue diskette (what? you don't have > one?) (which will automatically log you in as root). Mount the root > partition under /mnt or something appropriate to your rescue diskette > and use 'vi' to edit /etc/passwd. An entry for 'root' with no password > looks something like this: > > root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > > (the space between the first and second colons should be empty). > > HTH
Thanks to all that responded. Maybe I did not make a rescue disk the right way. I tried to boot from my rescue diskette, but the system kept bringing up the LINUX on hard disk and thereby still refusing access because of wrong password. So I used the INSTALL BOOT and ROOT diskettes. Somewhere in the menu it offered "mount a previously prepared disk partition" or something to that effect. I did and the took "execute a shell". >From there I got access to /etc/passwd. Edited root passwd to blank. Anyway I was wrong about there not being a passwd. I obviously forgot it. Well the install insisted that I enter a password which I eventually did. Then Dpkg came up and I quit it. Booted and gave it the new passwd I picked. Not to have this repeat, I went back into the passwd file and made root passwd blank. But HOW does one make RESCUE disk properly. Mine surely didn't rescue me! Chuma Agbodike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
