From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA20800 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 10:33:27 -0700 Message-Id: <199912301736.LAA11773@opus.cirr.com> From: eric@cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen) To: tom@piace.com cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Thanks...alot In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Dec 1999 12:14:10 CST." Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 11:36:07 -0600 Sender: eric@cirr.com List-ID: tom@piace.com writes: - I was able to boot into single user mode, and edit the password file. It - took a while to find a terminal program for my computer, that would let me - run vi correctly. Thanks for all your help. You realize you did more work than required, right?? Since you were running as root at single user, you could have used the `passwd' command to change roots password. On the other hand, its always good to know enough of `ed(1)' to be able to fix things like this no matter what sort of terminal you have.. -- Eric Schnoebelen eric@cirr.com http://www.cirr.com If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?