From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jamie Risk" Subject: Big dummy lost SU password... Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:28:09 -0400 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: Return-path: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Due in parts to brain fog and the remarkable stability of Linux, I've not had to adminster my Linux box for over 8 months. Because of Windows Admin tinkering, my samba server has stopped working and I need to modify it's configuration. Is there a way I can mount mylinux box (say from a bootable ISO image I'd make) to reset the root user password and not goof up the other accounts that I've been so happily been using? I'm hoping that combinations of commands like chroot and such will allow me to avoid rebuilding my system. - Jamie (if I rember correctly) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs