If you have root access you can drop to single user mode with "telinit 1" or by simply using "kill" judiciously =). Kurt Seifried, kurt@seifried.org PGP Key ID: 0xAD56E574 Fingerprint: A15B BEE5 B391 B9AD B0EF AEB0 AD63 0B4E AD56 E574 http://www.seifried.org/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory M. Begumisa" To: "Martin Peikert" Cc: Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 12:10 AM Subject: Re: [suse-security] single user mode

On 6 Sep 2001, Martin Peikert wrote:

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"Gregory M. Begumisa" wrote:

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Is it possible to boot in single user mode in linux?

Yes. Always or from the LILO prompt?

ALWAYS........?

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thanks ---- Greg On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Duane Kehoe wrote:

At lilo prompt type boot image followed by 1. Should look like this:

linux 1

BTW - this is not security related

Gregory M. Begumisa wrote:

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Is it possible to boot in single user mode in linux?

---- Greg

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