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Old 08-06-2004, 06:45 PM   #1
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Red face password expired


Fedora Core 2,

Help! My recently installed Core 2 (it was only the 2nd time logging in after the install) told me my 'password has expired, See you Administrator'. The reason the notification pops up was, coincidentally, after I fooled with root account by changing my root group, from "myrootname" to adm.

Now I can't log in. How do I get around w/o having to reinstall all from
scratch. Thanks much

--ROB
 
Old 08-07-2004, 02:19 AM   #2
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boot with fedora cd 1 with "linux rescue" option.
it will ask about / partition to /mnt/sysimage, say yes to this question.
and u will have a shell access as root.
check /mnt/sysimage/etc/passwd

here is 2 lines from my /etc/passwd file.

mesut:x:500:500:mesut:/home/mesut:/bin/bash

this line says, there is user called mesut, his group id 500, his home directory is /home/mesut
and he uses bash shell.

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

this is for root user.
 
Old 08-09-2004, 10:39 AM   #3
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Thanks much. I'll definitely will try that!!
 
  


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