On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 12:19 +0200, pk_melb_oz wrote: I don't see how. You *have* to enter one as part of the installation process. It won't proceed until you do. Perhaps you used the same password for both, or slightly mistyped it? This message has shades of, "how do I hack someone else's box?" No. Bootup in single-user mode (hit a key to temporarily edit the GRUB booting parameter when the GRUB screen appears, follow the on-screen instructions, prepend a space and a number one on the end of the kernel line, carry on booting). When done, you're logged in as root without a password. Set a password (read "man password" to work out how). -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.

Tim: Matej Cepl: Curse those lazy/bad original Unix developers who refused to give commands sensible names (we have no "unmount" or "password" commands, but "umount" and "passwd"). I suppose we're lucky that we have "useradd" and not "usad". ;-\ -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.

jj97blazer wrote: root Matt Flaschen

On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 12:19 +0200, pk_melb_oz wrote: Here is what you have to do. Reboot to the grub kernel choice menu. If you have not commented out hidemenu in grub.conf you will have to hit return on the first screen to see it. On the line of the kernel hit e to edit the line. It is explained at the bottom of the menu. Then at the end of the kernel line place a 1. Then continue the boot. You will boot into run level 1 where you are root and can change the root passwd with the passwd command. -- Aaron Konstam akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net