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

[Chris Ball]

On 05 Sep 2001 19:09:11 +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> 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...

It's true. For some reason, though, I have the idea it's only present in
Woody upwards, and not Potato. Certainly, my testing machine won't let
me boot to single witout a password. You'll get 'Enter root password for
maintainence or ^D for normal startup'.

~C.
 
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