Re: Emergency use of boot-rescue disk.

[Andrew Ivanov <c680789@showme.missouri.edu>]

Ok, you can do the following:
1. boot the computer. When it asks you for 
boot: 
type in 
linux init=/bin/sh
That will drop you into shell without asking for any passwords.
Then umount /  (reason for this is / is only mounted as read )
And remount the / partition as read-write.
then edit the passowrd file to blank out the second field in the root line
(field being anything between : )
THen save the file and 
sync

The just login as root, and it should let you in without problem, then
just reset the password.

There may be 2 password files, /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow
Make sure if that happens, that you change both.

HTH,
 Andrew



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