Re: Newby- New install forgot Login - pwd

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]



On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Joseph L. Casale <JCasale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>How in earth can I get myself out of this??

Press the power button once quicly and let it reboot. At
the grub timer countdown hit esc. Press e to edit, move
the cursor down to the middle line and press e, add a " s"
on the end, press b to boot.

Once you're at a prompt, type passwd, then read.

Reboot...
_______________________________________

Which is why I should password protect grub on my desktop -- have done so now on my laptop.

--
RonB -- using CentOS 5.3
_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[Index of Archives]     [CentOS]     [CentOS Announce]     [CentOS Development]     [CentOS ARM Devel]     [CentOS Docs]     [CentOS Virtualization]     [Carrier Grade Linux]     [Linux Media]     [Asterisk]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Xorg]     [Linux USB]
  Powered by Linux