OK, not o bad as that perhaps, but I told Lenny to install Pan.
Wanted a password, of course, which I tryped-in.
Spat it out. I presumed it was the root password? (Can't unforget the term it used, but it wasn't my user one.)
Now, I know the root password, or I thought I did - being paired with my user password in a reminder sort-of way - and I wasn't surprised when it rejected it, as for several weeks it had refused to let me in as user, even though I was feeding it the correct password. (Nev will remember it, in the Fat Cat).
Now it has agreed that I really *do* know my password, I can get in as user, but not as root, so, thinks I, I'll do a search in / for the passworm file - search on - contains: my admin password. It failed to find it, or at least, to divulge it.
So, I'm up a gumtree. But, I know there's a way of changing the root password without being root because a lot of years ago at a kitmoot a certain Mr. Ray did just that for me when I forgot my root passworm for Woody.
Help?
Pretty please...
Anthony Anson wrote:
OK, not o bad as that perhaps, but I told Lenny to install Pan.
/snip/
If I bung-in the Lenny installation disc 1 and type:
linux root=/dev/hda1 at the prompt
might this lead me to the original root password (or whatever Lenny thinks it is), or allow me to make a new one?
Sorted - there was no 'shadow' file, so the root passworm was not so easy to find. Had a bit of help, mind, but Lenny now knows what the passworm is.
Now I've got to scan all the CDs to see which one has Pan on it. Or download a slightly newer version?