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From: "Ing. Guillermo R. Martinez Hernandez" <gmo@www.comunica.net.mx>
To: "Tim McMillen" <timcm@umich.edu>
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Subject: RE: help!!!! i forget passwd root and i have ttys close
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 13:45:00 -0600
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Tim si Hablas espaņol seria fabuloso!!!

if no speak panish :-( but no problem


I worked whit floppy but i can not mount root file system, i thing if a may
put my kernel of my system in one floppy without rc file ( or this file whit
other config ) maybe i can change my passwd of root ( in this moment i have
login of admin maybe is util )

Thanks for all and i Wait for your help

Guillermo Mtz

----- Original Message -----
From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu>
To: Ing. Guillermo R. Martinez Hernandez <gmo@www.comunica.net.mx>
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 10:04 AM
Subject: RE: help!!!! i forget passwd root and i have ttys close




The advice others gave will definitely work. Just boot from floppy instead
of dropping to single user.  You have to follow the instructions correctly
and especially the instructions in the FAQ link they gave.  You need to
mount root filesystem read/write.
Buena suerte,

Tim


On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Ing. Guillermo R. Martinez Hernandez wrote:

>
> I did, but can not change the passwd, no show next step for change
passswd,
> only show the window in where you choice this option and dont change to
next
> windows ?
>
> you have other idea ?
>
> Please :-)
>
> Guillermo
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Crist J . Clark <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
> To: Ing. Guillermo R. Martinez Hernandez <gmo@www.comunica.net.mx>
> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 12:42 AM
> Subject: Re: help!!!! i forget passwd root and i have ttys close
>
>
> > On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 01:12:33AM -0600, Ing. Guillermo R. Martinez
> Hernandez wrote:
> > > please tellme how because i don know how do :-) i´m novice
> >
> > Oh, a newbie.
> >
> > Did you install from a floppy or CD? Do you still have the media you
> > used? Boot from it. On the first menu of sysinstall is a "Configure"
> > option, choose it. On the configure menu is a "Root Password"
> > choice. I think you can handle it from there.
> > --
> > Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu
> >
>
>
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