On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 22:40:48 GMT, Kevin Wilcox
<kw34272EMAILREAPERS@HATECAPSappstate.edu> wrote:

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>While drooling on their shoelaces, Lew Pitcher spouted:
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>> Dick Streefland wrote:
>>> Kevin Wilcox <kw34272EMAILREAPERS@HATECAPSappstate.edu> wrote:
>>> | If you just want to reset it, start the machine with a linux boot
>>> | floppy/cd. Tomsrtbt on a floppy works well for this, gentoo minimal
>>> | cd's work well, phlak/knoppix/pick_your_live_cd all work for this
>>> | purpose.
>>>
>>> Or even simpler, boot to single-user mode by adding "single" to the
>>> kernel command line. Then use "passwd" to set a new password.
>>
>> That might not work. Quite a few distros implement a login process even
>> for "linux single" boots. All the OP is likely to get is a login prompt
>> that asks for his password, but in single user mode.
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>Exactly. I've tried booting single user a few times and had to enter
>the password of whoever I was wanting to login as. It was a rather
>nice security feature, though a wee counter-productive at the time
>;)
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Yeah, that was a real nice feature when the disk drive was
partially trashed and the only thing I could do was single-user login
to root to try to recover the partition table. Didn't really want to
mess around with passwords at that point.
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