On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Matt Graham <
danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:
> So there's no way to boot a rescue CD, and appending "single" to the kernel
> command line starts a process that asks for the root password. Pas de
> probleme, mes amis. The magic word is "init=/bin/bash" . Instead of
> starting /sbin/init , the kernel starts bash as UID 0, which is suboptimal
> but will give you enough functionality to do "passwd" and change the password
> to something you can remember, *then* you reboot normally. NOTE: You may
> have to do "mount / -n -o remount,rw" so that / will be writeable. Also, I
> haven't tried this on a system where / is on LVM. HTH,
Great tip Matt, thanks.
> Dilbert: Not more than ten minutes ago you beat a man senseless.
> Alice: He was senseless before I beat him.
LOL! (literally)
Alan
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