Re: Root password
Well, in multi-user mode, it does NOT prompt for root password (on my potato
anyway... :)
Single user mode MIGHT be different, but I would be suprised.
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 06:50:11PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote:
> 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.
>
> Jens
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