| From: | Donald MacLennan |
| Date: | 8 May 2000 at 20:48:25 |
| Subject: | Re: Genesis bits + pieces |
Hello Sam,
On Sun, 07 May, you wrote about....
> Hello,
>
> two questions for you:
>
> 1: yesterday I reinstalled all my Netconnect3 software beacuse It seemed to
> be a bit buggy, and the paths were set up wrong. I have now got this sorted
> out now. But whilest setting up the Genesis prefs I added a couple of users
> (Myself and my sister) and saw that the 'root' one was still showing up in
> the Genesis User list. I did not want that there, so I went back into the
> prefs and opened the settings for the 'root' user and clicked on the
> disable user tick box (to tick it). now since then I have wanted to go
> backinto the prefs and adjust what I have set for my sisters access times.
> Unfortunately it will not let me change any of the user settings. It keeps
> asking for a password for the 'root' everytime I start it! Now I did not
> set a password for it, so what I want to know is, is there a default
> password that the 'root' uses so that I can get access to my user settings
> again? (I don't fancy reinstalling it again!)
>
I managed to paint myself into this corner as well, to get root user
access you need to enter the password but you cant enter the password
because root is disabled.
I edited amitcp/db/passwd to remove the asterisk in the line...
root|*|0|0|system manager|SYS:|noshell
Then reboot.
Cheers,
Donny
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