Re: root pswd?


Subject: Re: root pswd?
From: Jeremy Hodder (asjdh26@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2002 - 00:30:41 AKST


there are many ways. But the one I like is to boot with a res. disk
or some thing. mount your drive and edit /etc/passwd

root:remove:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

just remove the text between the first two :
then reboot and root will have no password

jeremy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Elkins" <LinuxRobot@yahoo.com>
To: <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 12:02 AM
Subject: root pswd?

>
> I just installed Red Hat, I chose my root password, but I guess I added an
> extra keystroke or somethin, anyway, is there a way to change the pswd for
> root? I Need Root.
>
> Adam
>
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