Re: [nottingham] nottingham - linux open evening Thurs Nov 15th

From: Matthew Rose (list@rose.org.uk)
Date: Sun 21 Oct 2001 - 11:19:12 BST


On (21/10/01 11:17), Andy Davidson wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Camo wrote:
>
> > I don't understand!!! If you forgot your password, why didn,t you boot it in
> > single user mode and passwd once in, you don't need a password in single user
> > mode, try typing 'linux single' at the LILO promt ???
>
> I think it can depend on the distro. Godfrey told me this, but I need the
> password on my debian systems.
>

Try LILO: linux emergency init=/bin/sh
which will do te minimum on booting and dump you right into a root
shell.

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