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 <bmike1@gmail.com> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
How do you gain access to a linux machine you have physical access to?

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