[dundee] Resetting root.

Wm. G. Urquhart dundee at lists.lug.org.uk
Thu Jun 12 14:00:00 2003


Hi All,

I've got a Sun SPARC running Mandrake7.1 (Hydrogen) and I can't get root 
access to the machine! When I installed it I set root to a known password. 
However, the installer said that 9 chars weren't enough so I added a 10th.

There were no complaints from the installer when I re-entered the password 
so I assumed that it was ok. How can I reset the password? I can't use a 
rescue disk as there's no floppy on the system. Or am I screwed and do I 
need to re-install?

-- 
William.