Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!midway!gargoyle!chinet!ignatz
From: ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us (Dave Ihnat)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: HELP root password unknown
Summary: Don't bother renaming files...
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.004739.6162@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 29 Nov 90 00:47:39 GMT
References: <1990Nov20.094505.896@ceres.physics.uiowa.edu> <1990Nov21.170504.10243@druid.uucp>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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This is relatively late for this person, but it may help someone else...
You *don't* need to go to the trouble of having it rename all your
files, etc.  Bring up the floppy-based first disk, break (as mentioned
by one other person), and you've a "tail-wagging-dog" situation, with
the floppy-booted Unix running and the hard disk waiting in the wings.
Mount your hard disk--the boot floppy will have that command--then use
your favorite editor from your hard disk to delete the password from
the hard disk copy of /etc/passwd (or /etc/shadow!).  Then reboot and
reset the root password...

	-Dave Ihnat
	 Analysts International Corp.
	 ignatz@homebru.chi.il.us