[techtalk] Forgotten root password

[Dan Nguyen]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 12:18:25PM -0500, Caitlyn Martin wrote:

Caitlyn,

> Boot up in single-user mode.  To do this, at the LILO prompt, type:
> 
> linux single
> 
> >From there you should be able to fix this "little" problem.
> 

That's not always necessarily true.  On RH systems single user mode
drops the system into a shell.  However on more ``secure'' systems it
run sulogin, which requires the root password to be able to get to a
shell.  The more generic solution, like everyone else has said is

linux init=/bin/sh

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