On Wed, 19 Jun 2024, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:24:48 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote:
My usual strategy is to boot a live disk and to edit the passwd and shadow files directly.
My strategy is to boot a live cd, then chroot into the copy on disk and use the passwd command. Maybe that would work better?
I'll try that. Since it has worked for you, I infer that you did an su first, otherwise I'd expect passwd to ask for a password.
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