I made a video on this for CentOS 7. Be careful with this process though. I did it how I would do it for OpenSUSE 13.2 and it ended up killing the boot. Lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxnRHTaGENY. On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Michael wrote: > you have been most helpful. thank you. If I'm doing this from a live disk > how do I tell it where the root user is? > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Daniel Stasinski < > daniel@genericinbox.com> wrote: > >> Yep. >> >> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Michael wrote: >> >>> thanks! to the end of the line that starts with the word "linux"? >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Daniel Stasinski < >>> daniel@genericinbox.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Add "single" to the end of the line and then boot it. >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Michael wrote: >>>> >>>>> oh yeah... I remember. At the screen where you choose the kernel you >>>>> change something. What though? >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Daniel Stasinski < >>>>> daniel@genericinbox.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Boot into Single User Mode from the console. Google has good stuff >>>>>> for the different distros. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Michael wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> How do you gain access to a linux machine you have physical access >>>>>>> to? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> | --------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> | Daniel P. Stasinski >>>>>> | daniel@GenericInbox.com >>>>>> >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> | --------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> | Daniel P. Stasinski >>>> | daniel@GenericInbox.com >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> | --------------------------------------------------------------- >> | Daniel P. Stasinski >> | daniel@GenericInbox.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >