2004-11-08T17:15:13ZFluxBBhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=7888Well my girl is smarter than me. I entered the root password for the user and the user password for root....
At lleast I can boot up linux without knowing the root password now...
]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=23812004-11-08T17:15:13Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=52478#p52478I used Knoppix ito edit my etc/password and etc/shadow files. Deleted the part with an * so there would be no password for root but when I reboot and login I still get the incorrect password message.]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=23812004-11-07T16:05:27Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=52317#p52317try to pass 'init=/bin/bash' to your kernel line from your boot manager (i know u can with grub, dunno about lilo). this should let u in without login into root. u can also recue back from a live-cd.]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=11762004-11-04T14:47:52Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=51794#p51794A friend set up Arch Linux but didn´t add a root password. (I needed help because I had to have the Chinese set up correctly. ) I added a user with a password but now I can´t llogin as root or as a user. ( From ....localhost login:)]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=23812004-11-04T14:20:44Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=51788#p51788