Re: root pass
Hello
Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra (<ldutra@prefeitura.sp.gov.br>)
wrote:
> Em Seg, 2004-01-19 às 10:33, konf escreveu:
>> during the installation of debian testing/unstable i missed menu
>> offering to set root password.how should i login to the system?is the
>> any default password for root set by installation?
>
> You should reboot, get the Lilo prompt (the S or C or A keys should do
> it), and pass the init S parameter.
I don't know about unstable or sarge, but if you use Woody and boot into
single user mode, you will be asked for the root password. You can
however try
Linux init=/bin/sh
instead. After the system booted, remount your / read-write:
mount / -o remount,rw
and call passwd to set the root password.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
--
Andreas Janssen
andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com
PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674
Registered Linux User #267976
Reply to:
- References:
- root pass
- From: konf <konf@front.ru>
- Re: root pass
- From: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra <ldutra@prefeitura.sp.gov.br>