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[Tim van den Elsen]

Or.. just hit CTRL-ALT-F2 (opens up a console but drops you out of X... try F3/F4/etc. if F2 doesn't give u anything)
then simply: passwd root

Good luck :)


On Sat, 10 May 2003 16:32:56 -0700
Joshua Oreman <oremanj at www.get-linux.org> wrote:

> On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 05:03:51PM -0600 or thereabouts, Fabio Miranda Hamburger seemed to write:
> > My system has only a  passwordless root account
> 
> That is an EXTREMELY BAD IDEA.
> That is an EXTREMELY BAD IDEA.
> Get the message?
> 
> > and I installed xdm and
> > when I tried it the n ext boot, now, i cant log in using xfree86 welcome
> > screen , it appers a passwordless account cant log in using xdm, and I
> > cant switch to a console or terminal because i seegarbage on screen.
> > 
> > What can i do now to log in my machine?
> 
> Reboot, and when you get 'Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds... ', press space.
> Type 'boot -s' and press enter.
> Now, do:
> # fsck -p
> # mount -a
> # passwd root   # <-- Set a password. Now.
> # exit
> Then it'll start up and root will have a password, so he can log in.
> 
> HTH,
> -- Josh
> 
> > 
> > ---
> > Fabio Andres Miranda
> > Ingenieria de sistemas informaticos
> > Universidad Latina - Costa Rica
> > 
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