Re: [cobalt-users] No Root or Admin Access

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry for the delay in this reply, I was at Internet World 2000.

Keith wrote:

> After
> talking with Cobalt Tech Support
> they said I would have to reinstall everything (Start OVER :( .  Does
> anybody have any Ideas?
> I tryied changeing the admin password in the UI but that did not work.
> I paperclipped the machine to reset the password and that did not
> work.
> I have of course rebooted a number of time.
> Thanks

You can remove the drive from the RaQ, install it temporarily into
another Red Hat Linux system, and fix the file, or reinstall the
original one, at least temporarily.

Sounds drastic, I know, but it preserves the entire contents of your
RaQ, whereas the restore CD deletes everything.

Read and buy a good linux or unix administration book.  For years the
only method there was of adding/deleting/modifying users to change the
/etc/passwd file by hand; it's not hard.

Jeff
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