[Gllug] I have forgotten my root password, I am a muppet.

Stig Brautaset stigbrau at online.no
Wed Sep 5 18:09:11 UTC 2001


* Bruce Richardson <itbruce at uklinux.net> spake thus:
> > I assume you are running lilo so at lilo prompt type in linux 1
> 
> On a debian system you still need to give a password if you boot to
> runlevel 1.

Are you sure? I booted with `linux single' and fixed my machine after
the fatal pam-modules fsckup. Then again, I may have been asked for a
password, but maybe it just didn't use pam...

Regards,
Stig

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