When you say:
>>First, you will have to boot at the command line with 'init=/bin/sh'
Is there a way to 'break' at some point during booting which will stop Linux from starting the login shell?
Shane
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Ian Wormsbecker
Sent: 2004 August 31 1:27 PM
To: CLUG General
Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Forcing a boot into single user mode
> We want to boot into single user mode so that we can change the root
> password to something we'll actually remember...
You can try to boot at the command line with 'linux single'. Depending
on your distribution, you may have to enter a password :( If this is the
case, you can still get around it, it just requires a bit more work.
First, you will have to boot at the command line with 'init=/bin/sh'
Then, you need to mount the root filesystem (and any others that you may
need) in order to write to the password files.
# mount -o remount,rw /
Then you can change the passwd :)
# passwd
Then you need to mount the root filesystem as read only so you can
powerdown without wrecking things
# mount -o remount,ro /
Then turn the power off :)
Cheers
Ian.
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