Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > > 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. ;-) If you use the init=/bin/sh option, it will just run /bin/sh directly, with no login. Or you can boot using a repair disk. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
