Subject: Re: Password?
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 25 2001 - 14:28:34 MST
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Howard Shere wrote:
> >> I can't remember my root password. How can I get it back or change it?
> >
> > Boot into single user mode ('single'), and run passwd.
>
> OK. I did that, but when I run passwd it fails because "another process has
> locked resource". Is this because the volume is mounted as read only? I
> assume so, but I don't know how to make it writeable.
Is it read-only? It shouldn't be... but if it is, 'mount -o rw,remount /'.
-Hollis
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