Subject: Re: Password?
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 25 2001 - 15:20:54 MST
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Howard Shere wrote:
> >>
> >> No luck. Even tho mount says rw next to the ext2 volume, vi tells me that
> >> the file system is mounted read only so I can't modify the shadow file.
> >
> > Then first remount the disk rw, then edit the file.
>
> I am trying to do this, but I haven't figured out the right mount commands
> yet.
mount -o remount,rw /
> > If all else fails, you can use init=/bin/bash.
>
> That is how I got to single user mode and that is where I am getting the
> errors. Is there another way to get to single user mode?
That's not even single-user mode. Try adding 'single' to your kernel
arguments.
-Hollis
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