password and account lockout of a user

[Mertens, Bram]

Better yet, ask the admin who do knows the root password.

Please read your message from the point of view of someone not familiar with your situation.  This sounds an awful lot like you want to hack an account.

Regards

Bram

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-----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Dustin Larmeir
> Sent: maandag 24 januari 2011 2:38
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: password and account lockout of a user
>
> Single user mode. At grub you can add an init=1 or boot -s or just add
> single at the end.
> On Jan 23, 2011 7:11 PM, "a bv" <vbavbalist at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > For on a redhat box i want to recover/change a users password which
> > the password is forgotten, the acoount is lockout and root password
> is
> > unknown
> >
> > Regards