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From: Carey Nairn <cpn@ccd.tas.gov.au>
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Subject: Re: Never thought I could be so stupid!
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Shutdown the machine to single user mode with shutdown(8) or type -s at
the boot: prompt when you reboot.

mount your filesystems with mount -a

change the root password with passwd(1)

cheers,
Carey Nairn


On Fri, 30 May 1997, Andy Pendry wrote:

> I am embarrassed!
> 
> I was changing user passwd's in root, and I enterted passwd without a
> user name (I was distracted). When I rebooted, I couldn't get into root
> because I had unwittingly changed the root passwd.
> 
> I have tried using a boot floppy. The change root passwd option is
> avaialable in the menu, but when I select it, it just redisplays the
> menu.
> 
> I can still log on as an ordinary user, but I need to get into root.
> 
> Please help!
> 
> Andy Pendry
> Network Administrator
> Trinity Academy
>