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From: mbreed@cs.tamu.edu (Michael B. Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Booting into Single User Mode
Date: 27 Jun 1996 16:30:53 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M Department of Computer Engineering, College Station, TX
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In article <4qu5s7$aq@anorak.coverform.lan>,
Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Just run "shutdown now" from multi-user or type "-s" at the Boot: prompt.
>You won't be asked for root's password.
Unless, of course, you've gone into /etc/ttys and changed the entry for
console from "secure" to "insecure".
That's good incentive to make sure you remember the root password, no?
There might be a way to make an end run around that problem by booting
from the installation floppy, mounting the fixit floppy, and working
forward from there. Has anyone tried jumping through such a set of hoops?
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-Brad Reed mbreed@tamu.edu http://www.cs.tamu.edu/people/mbreed/
TAMU Prisoner, August 31, 1992 - December 20, 1996