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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.erols.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: change the su password Date: 18 Nov 1996 15:57:23 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <56q113$8db@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <32837745.5D1C@sysnet.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Majid Matinrazm <majid@sysnet.net> wrote: > Does any body know how to change the su password from the console > We lost it. Or I have to reinstall the machine. > > I tryed to go to the single user mode but I was unable to change it. You forgot to tell which system this is... Anyway, it should be possible in single-user mode (unless your console is marked `insecure' in /etc/ttys). You might need to make your root filesystem writable first (``mount -u /''). -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j