On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 00:20 -0300, Guido Martínez wrote: > You can, by booting from some other media and changing the /etc/shadow > file. Or running a chroot, but I would suggest you take a look at your > keymap configuration. > If your password has non alphanumeric characters then it's likely that > what you inputted during the install is not what you really meant. > > Or if you have access to sudo, you can run "sudo passwd". That will > change the root password. > > Hope that helps. > Guido > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Robert B McKittrick > <mckitt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > my system 6.0.7 does notm recognize the root password I gave it when > > installing. is there any way to reset root without reinstalling?
Even alphanumeric characters could be an issue, e.g. QWERTZ vs QWERTY, however, the password z+z easily could become y´y. The display managers likely use a wrong keymap, that will be corrected by the desktop environment once a session is started. To get the correct keymap already for the display manager's login dialog, setting up the keyboard by xorg.conf will do the job. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1365738699.874.27.camel@archlinux
