On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:09:55 +0100, nick@linicks.net wrote:

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> But moaning at me doesn't help the guy out.

He helped you.


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+Alan Hicks+ <alan@lizella.network> wrote:
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> In alt.os.linux.slackware, Nick dared to utter,
> > Well yes, but then why not just suggest the solution to the guy?

> 1) Some one else had already offered a valid suggestion.
> 2) I was steering him away from your incorrect advice.
> 3) To teach you to check something before assuming it to be true across
> distributions.

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+Alan Hicks+ <alan@lizella.network> wrote:
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> In alt.os.linux.slackware, Nick dared to utter,
> > You don't need to boot off CD. Just reboot and at the lilo prompt, type
> > 'linux single'. It will boot minimum and you will be root!

> Check your facts. This ain't Red Hat. When you boot to single user mode
> in Slackware, you still have to enter that root password to log in.

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PAUL SUTTON wrote:

> Nick wrote:
>> Dominik L.. Borkowski wrote:
>>
>
> Thanks I'll try that, what file system do you recommend, i am using
> reiser, but perhaps I should use ext2 or ext3.
>
> paul
>
>>
>>>Nick wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>So what point is that then? If anybody has access to console, they can
>>>>boot up knoppix or whatever and get in anyway?
>>>
>>>his point was that your advice was invalid. a working solution would be
>>>to use 'Linux init=/bin/bash' for example.
>>
>>
>> Well yes, but then why not just suggest the solution to the guy?
>>
>> I *didn't* check (the thought never crossed my mind) 'linux single' on
>> Slackware 10 still prompts for root password - so my bad. But moaning at
>> me doesn't help the guy out.
>>
>> Nick

Um, mount it as whatever it was formatted as?

Thanks for the help, i seem to have fixed it now,


Paul

On 2004-08-26, HJohnson <HuMJohn@AeroSurf.Net> wrote:

> OK, after looking at the discussions on this topic, it seems no one gave
> you decent advice on how to get into your system. I have been there and
> done that a few times (mostly other people's systems.) Here is a simple
> means of fixing your login problem.
>
> 1. Boot off of the Slackare install CD
> 2. Mount your Linux HD partition that has the /etc.
> 3. cd to <mount point>/etc directory
> 4. using the vi command (stripped down version of elvis), edit the
> passwd file.

Usually you'd want vipw [-s] and vigr [-s] for this, if you want to
edit directly. I don't think there's much chance for file corruption
in single-user mode, but in multi-user it could happen or be more likely
to.


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