Its quite distro specific, some kinda setup in either in login.conf or inittab. It doent work on my system, besides its a security nighmare isn't it, so expect it to be turned off on "enterprise" linux's as well
On 8/10/06, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray <debarshi.ray at gmail.com> wrote: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Reset_a_Lost_Root_Password > > Nice link. But I have a query. The above link describes a method where > appending 'single' drops you into a root shell without asking for the > password. I have used this method in the past with success on Fedora > systems, and now I see it works in Gentoo too. But it does not work on > many distros. As far as I remember it does not work in SUSE and/or > Ubuntu. > > Cheerio, > Debarshi > > -- > "I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. > That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?" > > -Jean Kerr > > _______________________________________________ > Mailinglist mailing list > Mailinglist at ilug-cochin.org > http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org >
