I am curious, if I boot in init 1, and it asks for the root password, will it give the same expired account error? Thank you, James -----Original Message----- From: Mike Burger [mailto:mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 11:22 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: RE: root account expired --help That's one way to go. Another is to boot into single mode, change the root password, then "init 3" (or "init 5" if you run X on the system) and go. On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, McDougall, Marshall (FSH) wrote: > Boot to Linux rescue. Mount your filesystem as instructed. Change your > password. Reboot. HTH > > Regards, Marshall > > -----Original Message----- > From: James D. Parra [mailto:Jamesp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 1:07 PM > To: Redhat-List (E-mail) > Subject: root account expired --help > > > Hello, > > What a nice way to start a Monday. Tried to log in as root and received, > "Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator". Any > way to correct this? > > Thank you, > > James > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- 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
