Password

[Nils Kassube]

Ruben Safir wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:33:36AM +0000, Anthony M. Rasat wrote:
> > You need to start in single mode then change his password. Do this by
> > appending kernel line in grub menu a single word "single" then press
> > enter and b button to boot. You will enter command line mode without
> > login as root. Change his password and reboot. You will be able to
> > start login using this new password.
>
> This setting is sometimmes not enough if you have a password set on
> single user mode.

What is a "password set on single user mode"? Can you explain what you are 
talking about?

> The easiest way to deal with this, IMO, is boot off a live CD and
> remove the entries from /etc/passwd and /ect/shadow for root.  You'll
> then have access.

Don't do that because then you don't have a root account any longer. That 
is definitely NOT what you want. Furthermore it doesn't give you access 
to your user account.


Nils