Hy,
Pedro Paulo de Magalhães Oliveira Junior wrote:
I think if he forgot the root password there's no way to do this
For sure is it possible. He only has to regain root access if the superuser password has been lost in space!
2009/7/24 Gonzalo Rojas Costa <grojasy@puc.cl mailto:grojasy@puc.cl> But the sysadmin forgot the password of the superuser... I created the link in the /home/image directory, and in /home/image/freesurfer/bin, but freesurfer didn't find the lib... How can I solve the problem... How can I specify to freesurfer that the lib is in another folder ?... Any idea ?...
Just use a live CD of the distro of your choice (After booting: mount the system partition of your local installation, chroot to it and use passwd to set the password of root). Or you can boot into single user mode and reset the root password. http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=linux+root+password+reset should get you further.
I would really recommend to regain root access as you need it also to e.g. maintain your system with updates or to reconfigure your graphic settings.
Bye
Dirk