On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 02:09:27PM +1000, Clement wrote: > Hi, > > I lost the root passwd on a machine. Can someone give me a hand to > re-establish a new one? I lost the procedures somewhere.
Boot with a boot floppy (the rescue disk). Kill the passwd form /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow if you have shadow on (most likely). Just remove the "trash" between the first and second double point ":". Then reboot, your password is the empty password. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
