Jerry Turba wrote:
Thanks Willie and Marco for the ideas. I got the HOWTO and will read it
and try it out. I wasn't aware that there was a gentoo wiki. Looks like
lots of info there that I need to read.
Thanks for the help.
Hi, just for clarification so there is no confusion, my suggestion to
pass init=/bin/bash to the kernel from grub/lilo on boot was only meant
as an alternative to using a live-cd in case you brake your system
authentication while removing pam.
Using init=/bin/bash is probably a very bad way to replace any sort of
authentication system, it's just useful as a way of starting up the
system without running any sort of init scripts, mounting extra
filesystems, loading kernel modules, etc...
In case anyone reading this is interested in more info about the normal
startup of the system (which is the implicit init=/sbin/init used if you
don't supply an init parameter), there's more info here:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_04_02.html
The rest of the site www.tldp.org (The Linux Documentation Project) has
great info on many things in the linux universe as well.
Marco
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