Adding to what Marko wrote, since it sounds from the original post like the system may be configured to ask for a password in single user mode. If that's the case you'll need to boot from the Fedora install disc and choose the rescue mode, or if not available use any Linux rescue/recovery disk and mount the root partition manually. Once that's done, *carefully* edit the file "/etc/shadow" on the system's boot disk and delete the long string of gibberish between "root:" and the next ":", the next time you boot in single user mode it will drop you directly to the root prompt without a login and you can then use "password" to enter a new password. If it comes to this and you have the HDD's "/etc" actually mounted on "/etc", then if at all possible use the command "vipw -s" to edit the file as this will set the necessary locks to prevent any file corruption etc. -- Andy The only person to have all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
