[Wylug-discuss] Sudo

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 15 April 2008 13:43:15 Jim Jackson wrote:
> 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.
> >
No, you can't.  As I said, I had tried that.  It wants the password too early 
in the proceedings, and can't get it.  Asus tech. support confirmed that at 
that stage it is necessary to use the Rescue Disk.

Anne


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