Re: Single user mode

Dave Wreski (tel1dvw@is.ups.com)
Mon, 13 Jan 1997 16:59:01 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Andy Walden wrote:

> > Is it possible to boot in single user mode and change root's
> > password? If so, How do you boot in single user mode and change
> > root's password.
>
> Get a boot disk and when prompted at first mount your partition with
> soemthing like

Although this is also possible to do, if you are using lilo, you can
simply type at the lilo prompt:

linux single

and that will boot single user.

Dave

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