[K12OSN] Wish my Centos5 server was a Mac

Alan Hodson ahodson at elp.rr.com
Sun Oct 12 21:23:18 UTC 2008


Howdy list

Wishing a perfectly good Centos5 server was a Mac server applies only to 
the ease of re-setting the root/admin password with the boot disk. The 
mounting /etc/shadow and blanking out the password content (between :: 
::) does not seem to work for the machine I have. Tried Knoppix and 
PCLinux Live CDs to no avail...

Does anybody have a solution to change root password via a passwd 
reinstall or reactivation or some such measure?
Thanks
Alan
El Paso ISD, TX
-=o=-




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