[Wylug-discuss] Sudo

[Jim Jackson]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 April 2008 07:58:04 Mark Randall wrote:
>> I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but it can break some features
>> of the eee pc if you change this setting:
>>
>> http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=1587
>>
>> I haven't played with this setting myself though, but if I was storing
>> sensitive information on my pc I would want it to be password protected!
>>
> Sadly, you are correct in pointing this out.  I discovered it last night -
> without realising just what had caused it.  You can't even use the F9
> recovery system.

I'm surprized by that. However you could still get into a shell
at the initrd stage, before the union fs is made, and rescue yourself from
there. There is a howto here

http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:installrescuemode

>  You have to install from the recovery DVD.  That part's
> done now, but I still have quite a lot to do to get things back to where they
> were.
>
> Anne
>