Re: How to recover root password

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On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:14:54 -0500
"Nguyen, David M" <david.m.nguyen@xxxxxx> wrote:

> I am able to get to single mode but when I type passwd to reset root
> password I got error shown below.
> 
> passwd:  Authentication token manipulation error
> 
> I try top copy and edit shadow file but it does not let me as it says
> the file is read only. Any idea?
> 

Remount your root partition read-write:

mount / -oremount,rw

Sean


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