Re: Forgotten root password HELP
Patrick,
What's "Tom's Rescue Disk"? Is it the standard Debian Rescue image, or
something else? (I missed it in your thread somewhere...)
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> Thanks one and all. I tried two approaches:
> - at LILO prompt I typed linux init=/bin/bash. This failed because the /
> partition mounted read-only
> - used Toms Rescue Disk. This allowed me to edit /etc/passwd and
> /etc/shadow. Success!
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Patrick
>
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