I got message mount: no such partition found -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sean Estabrooks Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 11:19 AM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: How to recover root password 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list