On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 07:11:05PM +0000, azeem ahmad wrote: <snip> > >-- > making alias to 0, how it could be done? > and also the scenario is someone once changed my machine's root password. > now if i had another root account i could access my machine and reset root > password again > There an easier way to that. When the grub menu comes up type e to edit the line highlighted line. Then put a 1 at the end of the line. Then when you type b you will boot into run level 1 as root user. Then you can change the root passwd, Hit ctl-d I think will reboot the machine to run level 5 and you now know the root passwd. Two more things: pinfo grub will give you the details of this process. Any one who has access to your console can do this so watch out. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
