Re: a blonde moment

["Ronald W. Heiby" <heiby_rh falkor chi il us>]

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Two solutions that I have not noticed suggested here:

1) Boot from a Linux Boot floppy. Perform whatever filesystem
maintenance is required. Then, mount the root partition on the hard
drive and edit /etc/passwd or (more likely) /etc/shadow (I think is
where the shadow password file lives). Delete the encrypted password
string for the "root" record and write the file back out.

2) Take that hard with the problem, and install it as the 2nd drive in
some other machine. Boot that machine from its normal Linux hard drive
and continue as described in #1 above.

Good luck!

Ron.

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