[Gllug] newbie/problem

[Sudhir Anand]

On Thursday 12 December 2002 17:23, Simon Stewart wrote:
<snip>
> Nope. If you're using lilo then you'll prolly want to boot with:
>
> linux init=/bin/bash
>
> Which will boot Linux and use bash as the init process. Delete the
> password for root in the password file, or just change it using the
> passwd command and reboot. Once you can log back in, just make sure
> that root has a secure password before doing _anything_ else :)
>
> As long as it's possible to log in as root, you're laughing.

As a matter of interest, assuming that the "lost password" is that of root, 
dropping into bash will not help, will it?

Sudhir Anand
Andson

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