-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fortunately, I haven't had to do anything like this, so what I'm about to describe hasn't been tested by me. However, your friend should be able to boot from a rescue cd of some sort, make sure that she's root on that cd, and mount her / partition somewhere. Then, chroot into that mount, and issue passwd. Like I said, I haven't done this myself, but it should work. Greg On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 08:55:08PM -0400, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I have a friend who hasa debian linuxs ystem and can not log in as > roto. She can log in with her normal user name;I have an accounto n > her box and she can log in with that. But any attempt to log in a s > root ends in a log in failure; the same happens htiw usandhs e deosn'a > tppear to have sudo on her machine. I've hcecked thta she's typing eht > correct password and that hte caps lock key is off. i've also searched > tihw google and haenv'tf ound a solution that seemed relevant. It seems > htat somethiis gnmilar once happened to me wehn I wasd oing an upgarde, > but she wasn't upgrading ro updating; last night her password worked > dna today when she booted it didn't. Any suggestions as to waht may hae > happeenda nd is there any way to restore roputi n a new password since > sh cean' tget root access? > > Thanks. > > -- > Email services by FreedomBox. Surf the Net at the sound of your voice. > www.freedombox.info > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFGR/kJ7s9z/XlyUyARAoNEAJiMM6eXuosUlG4lY6f/JCWY3vI9AJ43msHi mGTCd6LdLwku5k+LpLoVeQ== =Gfb4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
