You might want to do this if you have some maintenance issues to deal with
and don't want all your daemons loading and complicating the work to be
done. Also, you have the machine all to yourself so you can be assured no
'outside processes' will be influencing the results you are seeing from
anything you may be testing.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of jsm
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 12:07 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] speaking of passwords
>
>
> I guess I'm too new at this ! But I keep seeing references to "
> boot to single
> user mode " . What is it ? How and why would you want to ?
>
>
> Thanks
> jsm
>
> Jackal wrote:
>
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> > login as root and change the password for the user (unless it
> is the root
> > password that u forgot). If
> > it IS the root password that u forgot then u have to rebbot
> into single mode
> > and change the root passwd from there...
> >
> > On 14-Jul-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > i just installed linux and i forgot my password. i know my
> username, but i
> > > was talking on the phone and must have typed in something and
> now i forgot
> > > what it is. what do i do?
> > >
> > > thanks, jerrud
> >
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