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Old 06-26-2003
Sebastian Hans
 
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Default Re: HELP! - I've screwed up and now can't access root

Dan Smith <dsmith@NOSPAM.danplanet.com> wrote:
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>> into it. Please can someone help me out here?

>
> When you get to the lilo prompt, type "linux init=/bin/sh". That should
> log you straight to a shell with nothing started. Then, "/bin/vi
> /etc/passwd".


I don't think that sxjcp uses lilo. Part of what you snipped:
>> this point I then rebooted to test a previous security implementation to the
>> grub.conf file to enforce pwords when login in to command line.


A bootdisk seems to be the only solution (except for putting the
harddrive into another computer and doing it from there).

Ciao.
Seb.
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