Re: [newbie] speaking of passwords

[John Aldrich]

On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> 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 ?
> 
Single user mode is good for when you've forgotten your
password as "root" among other things. Basically it's just
like booting into an MS-DOS machine -- you can only log in
ONCE... no multiple virtual terminals or anything like
that. 
I'm not sure what else it's good for, but that's mainly
what it's good for.