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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help! No root login, no backdoor
Date: 16 Jun 1995 08:41:06 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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Message-ID: <3rrg32$9al@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
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JvNCnet ENS Users (bucks@tigger.jvnc.net) wrote:
>
> Help! I messed up my .xsession file in the /root dir and can't log
> in! I can't even su 'cuz the only other account is guest. Is there
> a way to boot into single user with write enabled on /? The -s flag
> seems to want to mount the root file system as read-only.
Boot with kernel -s, when you get to the shell prompt, mount your
filesystems normally (you can use "mount -av" if your /etc/fstab
doesn't contain any remote NFS volumes). You will then have
read-write access to your root filesystem.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org