Question

[Net Llama!]

boot into single user mode, and you'll get dumped to a bash prompt as the
root user.  then you just need to run passwd to choose a new password.  i
would, however, be concerned on how this breakage occured, as passwords
don't normally get corupted on their own.

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Rick Sivernell wrote:

> List
>
>     Seems my root passwd has been corrupted or changed somehow. Is there
> away I can get to it in the shadow to fixit or change it. Using Caldera
> 3.1.1 for now. Soon this will be moved to gentoo.
>
> cheers
>
>

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