[Wylug-discuss] Sudo

[Jim Jackson]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
> 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.

I'm still very surprized. However, I'd just boot puppylinux or similar from 
a USB stick, mount the partition and edit the /etc/sudoers back again to 
how it should be.

> Asus tech. support confirmed that at
> that stage it is necessary to use the Rescue Disk.

Never trust Asus Tech support on Linux :-)