On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 09:33:54AM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote: > > 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao <jcao.li...@gmail.com>: > > > Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. > > > Then, you can change root password. > > > > Ah..banging my head why I did not think of this... > > Because it doesn't work in Etch or Lenny? Don't know about other versions of > Debian. I have certainly used distros where it did work. > > If you try to boot into single user mode it demands the root password. > Otherwise it won't let you in.
Put init=/bin/sh on the kernel command line (assuming that you didn't also put a password on the boot loader menu). You'll end up running /bin/sh instead of init. All you'll have is the / mounted ro. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
