[lug] Re: linux

[Eric Kilfoil]

Another thing to try is to just edit the shadow file directly and insert a
crypted root password for the root entry.

ZKaUQf7treg/w

is a DES crypted password of 'iamroot'.  So your shadow entry would be
somethign like:


root:ZKaUQf7treg/w::::::

eric

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Hugh Brown wrote:

> My understanding is that the :x: means go look at /etc/shadow, whereas an
> actual password would just be used for authentication.  So, you could null
> the /etc/shadow password field and leave the :x: (don't know if that will
> work, never tried it) or you could null /etc/passwd and should be
> successful.
>
> YMMV,
> Hugh
>
>
> > Now Ralf had suggested actually nulling the password in etc/passwd.
> >
> > My question is, if shadow password are enabled will nulling the "X" in the
> > etc/passwd file take care of the problem?
> >
> > It's SuSe 6.4 and shadow passwords are enabled.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any ideas on this.
> >
> > -Glenn Ashton
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