Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2664 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 14 May 2008 19:35:09 jdd sur free wrote:
> Anders Johansson wrote:
> > You are aware I hope that root can run "passwd" and set a new password
> > without having to give the old one
>
> not really, from rescue console you have to mount some virtual folders
> (like /dev) before chrooting to get passwd working (and distros varies
> as of this)

But why would you want to boot the rescue system, when you can just add

init=/bin/bash

to the kernel command line, and boot into a perfectly working command line 
where you can do everything without tricks

Anders
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