[Gllug] newbie/problem

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Tue Dec 10 19:52:51 UTC 2002


On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Tethys said:
> 
> Andrew Halliwell writes:
> 
>>Not the most friendly environment for a newbie though.
>>No keymap set, no paths or other environment variables...
> 
> Of course, you don't need any of that to be able to type "passwd root".

You'll at least need to know about `mount -o remount,rw /'...

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