On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 14:15, Corné Beerse wrote: > Rafa Quintanilla wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am using fedora and set two more users, one of them > > my wife. I tried to leave her password blank, but > > fedora wouldn't admit that (altho I have it so in MDK > > 9.2, in the same hard disk). Does anyone know if that > > is possible? How? > <snip> > btw: `vipw` uses `vi` or `vim` by default. If you set the environment variable > "EDITOR" to your favorite editor, then it uses that: > # setenv EDITOR nedit > or > # set EDITOR=nedit; export EDITOR > or simply: # export EDITOR=nedit :) > Be noted, you can directly edit the password file (/etc/passwd) or the shadow > password file (/etc/shadow ??) but if it gets corrupted, you cannot login > anymore and most likely need to reinstall the entire system... The `vipw` tool > checks the validity of the /etc/password file. > Editing /etc/passwd directly is certainly not to recommend, but there's no need to reinstall because you lost your root password. Just boot the bootdisks you created, and set a new root password. And if you didn't create a bootdisk you can grab tomsrtbt: http://www.toms.net/rb/ Or any other linux rescue disk/bootdisk for that matter... -- tarjei
