Ok, you can do the following:
1. boot the computer. When it asks you for
boot:
type in
linux init=/bin/sh
That will drop you into shell without asking for any passwords.
Then umount / (reason for this is / is only mounted as read )
And remount the / partition as read-write.
then edit the passow
per_adua32 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> %4. Edit the second field, which is the encrypted password, of
> % /etc/passwd to show nothing. It would look something like this:
> % You should then be able to login as root with no password at all.
> Problem is I don't understand one logs in
I came home from work looking forward to a few hours
playing with my Linux box, but unfortunately am unable
to log on.
I thought about re-installing the base system (which
doesn't take long) but I decided to ask for help instead.
I have the rescue disk and a bootdisk but don't really know
wh
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