On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 08:30:50PM -0800, Chris Kennedy wrote:
> Jeez, if you've got the media to do that then all you have to do is boot off
> CD, deal with the configuration dialog long enough to get to the point
> where you can break out and get a shell, mount the root file system off
> the existing drive and then hammer _both_ /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow
> (this case sounds like /etc/passwd got modified but not the shadow file).
> No need to install anything...
Its a lot easier than that:
ok boot cdrom -s
Gets you a single-user shell, no need to deal with the install at all.
Bill (mrbill_at_sunhelp.org)
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Bill Bradford
mrbill_at_mrbill.net
Austin, TX
Received on Sat Nov 25 2000 - 01:41:32 GMT