technical question

[Casey Dahlin]

Well welcome aboard.

This might have been the harder way to do things. I assumed that you 
didn't know the root (administrator) password either.

Well, with luck you'll never have to do this again :)

I will mention again that fedora-devel-list is where the engineers do 
the grunt work on fedora, and they really can't do tech support. The 
users list is for these kinds of questions:

http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Hope I helped. Now to bed. :)

--CJD

Sam Gordon wrote:
> working with linux is harder then flying a plane for me lol....ive 
> never used it before im a windows person and my friend is trying to 
> successfully pull me away from it
>
> On 10/4/07, * Casey Dahlin* <cjdahlin at ncsu.edu 
> <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu>> wrote:
>
>     That would be the command prompt :)
>
>     Linux users who haven't seen a shell before. Fancy this wondrous
>     modern
>     age we live in. Type the following:
>
>     passwd root
>
>     and you can change the root password. Then type
>
>     passwd <your friend's username here>
>
>     and you can change his password.
>
>     Sam Gordon wrote:
>     > im probably buggin the hell out of u and im sorry....it rebooted it
>     > after i wrote single in the line for the kernels but now its
>     stuck at
>     > sh-3.1#
>     > and doesnt load anything
>     >
>     > On 10/4/07, *Casey Dahlin* <cjdahlin at ncsu.edu
>     <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu>
>     > <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Modify kernel arguments. You want to add 'single' to the end
>     of the
>     >     arguments list.
>     >
>     >     Sam Gordon wrote:
>     >     > hey wow that was fast cool...ok im in some screen and its
>     says GNU
>     >     > GRUB vr. 0.97
>     >     > Fedora Core( 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
>     >     > i guess its like a boot window...i cant like edit commands
>     before
>     >     > booting, modify kernel arguments before booting, or go to
>     >     command line...
>     >     > is this where i type what u said or the main login window
>     after the
>     >     > system starts up?
>     >     > cuz i tried /etc/passwd and that didnt work at all...and u
>     attached
>     >     > something do i input that sumwhere?
>     >     >
>     >     > On 10/4/07, *Casey Dahlin* < cjdahlin at ncsu.edu
>     <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu>
>     >     <mailto: cjdahlin at ncsu.edu <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu>>
>     >     > <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu>
>     <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu>>>> wrote:
>     >     >
>     >     >     Sam Gordon wrote:
>     >     >     > hi i got a question..my friend installed fedora on my pc
>     >     and put in
>     >     >     > the username password and now he doesnt remember it
>     lol..and i
>     >     >     have no
>     >     >     > idea what it is because he installed it...is there a
>     way to
>     >     >     override
>     >     >     > the login or somehow bypass it and change the
>     information?
>     >     plz just
>     >     >     > tell me what my options r in the matter
>     >     >
>     >     >     This list is for development discussion. For help and
>     >     support you
>     >     >     should
>     >     >     try fedoraforum.org <http://fedoraforum.org>
>     <http://fedoraforum.org>
>     >     <http://fedoraforum.org> or #fedora on
>     >     >     irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net>
>     <http://irc.freenode.net>
>     >     <http://irc.freenode.net> . That being said,
>     >     >     from the grub screen, edit your default boot settings and
>     >     add the word
>     >     >     'single' (without quotes) to the end of the line
>     mentioning
>     >     >     'vmlinuz' .
>     >     >     When you boot, you will get a text-only shell with root
>     >     privileges.
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