user name password change

Gregory Nowak greg at romuald.net.eu.org
Tue Sep 19 13:40:17 EDT 2006


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I don't see why he'd need to boot from a livecd, since he's still able
to login as root, and he should be able to perform what you describe
while logged in as root on the actual system.

Greg


On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 08:37:47AM +0100, Chris Norman wrote:
> If that fails, bot from a live CD such as GRML, and find the user's entry in 
> /etc/passwd, and remove the capital x after their user name, don't remove 
> the colons though.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Chris Norman
> <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com -->

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