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[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Monday 16 August 2004 15:46, Mike Burger wrote:
> Personally, I've never been asked for a password when booting to single
> user mode, either via reboot or "init 1".

You have to be root first to be able to do 'init 1'. So reboot is the only way 
in this case, and it will not ask for root password.

It's curious that the first few responds was to use linux rescue CD. I never 
use linux rescue CD except when I need to fix the boot loader, wrong mount 
point stuff that cause kernel panic (ie, after swapping harddrives), or the 
system is really messed up that you can't even boot single mode. Most stuffs 
can be fixed just by booting to single mode, easier than using linux rescue 
CD.

RDB

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Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN

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