How to recover root password

Russell Miller duskglow at gmail.com
Sun Aug 3 00:11:39 UTC 2008


Russell Miller wrote:
>
>> ons so far have assumed you won't get asked for a root password to go 
>> to single user.  There's a way around that too.
>>
>> Append "init=/bin/sh" to the end of the kernel line and boot.
>>
>> mount -o ro,remount /
> That should be mount -r rw,remount
>
And THAT should be mount -o rw,remount /

It's Saturday, and I can feel it.  Back into my hole...
> Sorry.  Typing too fast.
>
> --Russell
>




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