no.  put the two colons together.

George

Craig White wrote:
> 
> OK - So do I just put an asterisk '*' between the 1st and 2nd colons?
> 
> Craig
> 
> On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 09:13, Mike wrote:
> > I have always used a Debian boot disk (I'm sure many others
> > work as well), boot it up to the disk, mount the partition
> > where /etc/shadow is located, edit the file, save the file,
> > reboot and you're done.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 08:52:58AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> >  Have a computer that the user who installed Suse (I believe it is 7.2)
> >  has forgotten the root password. I can torch the partitions but I
> >  thought that it would be easy enough - in RedHat - all I need to do is
> >  start up as linux 1 or linux single and then it doesn't ask for a
> >  password - but on this system, it still asks for root password.
> >
> >  Is there another way to get to root access and change the password on
> >  this system? I am certain that this isn't a grub or lilo password since
> >  it boots up.
> >
> >  Craig
> >
> >
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