root account expired --help

[Mike Burger]

Personally, I've never been asked for a password when booting to single 
user mode, either via reboot or "init 1".

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, James D. Parra wrote:

> I am curious, if I boot in init 1, and it asks for the root password, will
> it give the same expired account error?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> James 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Burger [mailto:mburger at bubbanfriends.org]
> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 11:22 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: RE: root account expired --help
> 
> 
> That's one way to go.  Another is to boot into single mode, change the 
> root password, then "init 3" (or "init 5" if you run X on the system) and 
> go.
> 
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, McDougall, Marshall (FSH) wrote:
> 
> > Boot to Linux rescue.  Mount your filesystem as instructed.  Change your
> > password.  Reboot. HTH
> > 
> > Regards, Marshall 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James D. Parra [mailto:Jamesp at MusicReports.com] 
> > Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 1:07 PM
> > To: Redhat-List (E-mail)
> > Subject: root account expired --help
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > What a nice way to start a Monday. Tried to log in as root and received,
> > "Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator".  Any
> > way to correct this?
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > James
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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