I believe you can enter 'init 1' as root and you're running system will be
brought into single user mode..

Scott Rohling

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Jake anderson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> When I do logon linuxxxx by jake02 it automatically starts the Linux guest
> so I am unable to force the mode 1 ipl.
>
> Should I change the profile exec of Linux guest so that it IPL with mode 1
> to start as single user mode ?
> On 19 Feb 2015 21:14, "Veencamp, Jonathon D." <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > And single user mode puts you right into root without password, because
> > it's assumed if you control the console, then you must be ok.  (control
> > your consoles everyone!)
> >
> > Have I got that right?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> > Bruce Hayden
> > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 9:39 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Single User mode Linux Guest
> >
> > Enter:  passwd root
> >
> > root can change any password without knowing the existing one - even its
> > own..
> >
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