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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!rde!ksmith!keith
- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Subject: Re: Single-user mode boot on SCO UNIX
- Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
- Date: Sat, 05 Sep 92 04:06:25 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep05.040625.1968@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <syscrc.714768938@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> <1992Aug30.161948.14084@jpradley.jpr.com>
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- In article <1992Aug30.161948.14084@jpradley.jpr.com> jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
- >In article <syscrc.714768938@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> syscrc@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter) writes:
- >
- >You need the root password to enter single-user mode too.
- >
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- Nope, mount root from floppies, mv /etc/passwd and reboot. Once in Sys
- maint mode put it back, and run the passwd command.
-
- A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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- -ks
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