Ever been in this situation? You change your root user password because you're trying to keep your system secure, but in the process you made your system so secure that you could not log in to the system as root because you forgot the password that you just knew no one else would be able to think of - and it looks as though you were right. Ok, so what if this happened to me? Why are you judging me? ...... Sorry, back to the topic at hand. :)
In order to use this fix you MUST be logged in to an account that has Administrative Priviledges on that system.
Here is what to do:
Open a terminal window and type in these commands
1. cd /etc
2. mount -t ufs -a
3. sudo passwd root
4. your password
5. the new root password (be sure to write this one down or something :) )
I guess this just goes to show you that you must be very careful who you give administrative access to. The moral of this story is: Only give administrative access to people you can trust and be careful when playing with the root account and when playing with sudo in the terminal.
Thanks to Lynn for this fix.
August 29 2002, 10:01 AM EDT, by
Comments:
Fiachra de Róiste
4/25/03, 8:02 PM EDT
A chara,
A simplier way would be to boot from the Jag cd (on start up by pressing c) and when the initial installer window (the first window shown) is displayed go to file (at the top left of the in window). there is an option to reset password. This would be an alternative if one had the "administration problem"
Mise le meas
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Ever been in this situation? You change your root user password because you're trying to keep your system secure, but in the process you made your system so secure that you could not log in to the system as root because you forgot the password that you just knew no one else would be able to think of - and it looks as though you were right. Ok, so what if this happened to me? Why are you judging me? ...... Sorry, back to the topic at hand. :)