Solved - Re: Recovering lost root password by editing shadow

Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 16 Dec 2016 13:00:57 -0500



    Something stupid, like changing shadow on another mounted drive I
    was working on...

    
    Sigh.

    
    thanks

    
    On 12/16/2016 12:02 PM, Greg Woods
      wrote:

    
          On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 9:32 AM,
            Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
            wrote:

            
              vi
                shadow

                (delete all the characters between the first and second
                :)
            
          
          You might need to do the same with /etc/passwd too.
        

        --Greg
        

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