> Secondly, you may not even need the password. On older systems it often seems > that you can use L1-A during bootup and then not require the password. On > later systems this is fixed - you always need the password. Just a note for historical accuracy. We tried to fix this problem on early Sun's by adding a password checking step in /.profile (which is only read when the system is booting.) Some suggested a simple addition of a "login root" line to the /.profile file. DON'T DO THIS! We had a system that had a disk problem, crashed, rebooted into single user mode waiting for someone to run FSCK. The login program timed out, and terminated. This caused the system to go into mutil-user boot without fixing the disk, which corrupted the disk some more, which caused more reboots, etc. Instead, we used a simple program that read the password file, and would not exit until the root password was typed correctly. So there was a semi-fix for older systems, but I have heard that people could still halt the system, change the kernel, and continue without needing a password. I never knew how to do this.