Subj : Re: password Problems
To   : comp.os.linux
From : =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lin=F8nut?=
Date : Wed Jun 23 2004 10:43 pm

Error BR-549: MS DRM 1.0 rejects the following post from Ryan Waye:

> I am an pretty experienced debian user, but when installing on a
> friend's computer I ran into a problem.  We went through the install
> fine, but when we came to the first logon prompt it rejected all of our
> attempts to log in, whether with root or with the other user name.  We
> are pretty certain that we have at least one of the passwords correct,
> if not both.  Regardless, it keeps on rejecting them.  What could be
> causing this/how may it be corrected?

Maybe you can boot to a Gentoo LiveCD, chroot to your real root dir,
and change the password.  I suppose it will ask for the old one, though.

No it won't, here's some complete instructions:

http://www.linuxmanagers.org/pipermail/linuxmanagers/2003-March/001049.html

Good luck!

Remember, he who mess around in root soon kill tree!

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