On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 04:35:33PM +0100, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
You should see a prompt like this
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But not on Slackware, It's more secure Linux distro than others and even on single user mode you are asked for user name and password.
Thanks, I didn't know that. (Nor did I know DP was using slackware.) That approach has mixed blessings of course (what if you want to get into single user mode because you forgot the root password and need to reset it? -- of course there are other ways to do that)
I couldn't imagine situation when sysadmin simply loses his password.
But it could happen and than the only way to get into Slackware box is to hack it. ;-)
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