Unable to change password

Andrew Hill list at fornax.net
Tue Dec 12 10:29:33 CST 2006


On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 11:57 +1030, shaun etherton wrote:
> Andrew Hill wrote:
> > Well, I'm stumped. I've got a machine that I can't seem to change the
> > root password on:
> > 
> > Any ideas where I should start to look?

> man chattr(1) maybe?
> lsattr on /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.

[root at staff etc]# lsattr passwd
------------- passwd
[root at staff etc]# lsattr shadow
------------- shadow

:-(

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Andrew Hill
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