root account expired --help

[Mike Burger]

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
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Mike Burger
http://www.bubbanfriends.org

Visit the Dog Pound II BBS
telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org

To be notified of updates to the web site, visit 
http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a 
message to:

site-update-request at bubbanfriends.org

with a message of: 

subscribe