* Jens Ritter said: > Seth R Arnold <sarnold@willamette.edu> writes: > > > I haven't tried this myself... but, I seem to recall that if you pass linux > > "single" on the boot line (at the lilo prompt, etc..) it will boot into a > > single-user mode; within that you should be able to "passwd root". > > This will ask for a password, too. > You have to reboot using a floppy and edit /etc/passwd manually. No, you don't have to do that. It's enough if you start linux with the following command line: single init=/path/to/your/shell marek
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