Root's account has been disable by system administrator
 

I am an advanced computer user, but not in linux so please be gentle :)

I am having issues with my Root account.

The machine was working fine the last time i used it. Now when I try to log into the linux machine with the root account, it says that the system administrator has disabled your account. I am not on a network and I am the administrator. I have not touch the account information for the Root.

Is there an easy way to recover the root account?

I am on Red Hat 9.

Sure is, unless you have protected this way :) boot your system in a single-user mode, and you have root login (administrator rights). Then change the root password to make sure it works,

and there you go. then reboot the machine and see if it worked. And remember, as long as you can boot in a single-user mode, you can change the root password - actually, you can do anything. So it might be a good idea to protect the system so you can't boot into single-user mode just like that (bootloader password is one help...)

You can try to acess your system with the rescue system contained on the CD/DVD.

well its not the password that's the problem, it's the fact that it's disabled. So if i can get into s-u mode, how do I get the root account to be active again. Like I said I'm a total :newbie: at this so step by step is great :D

so sad
 

once i had the same problem....i tried my best to solve the problem..i tried to change the root pass but i was unable so i re-installed the Redhat ! so i can just say that you can re-install it !