Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2407 mails)

[rear@xxxxxxxxxx (Bob)]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Stuart Powell wrote:
> On a Linux box, I can walk up to your machine, reboot it, and at the LILO
> prompt type "linux single".  Some of the more lax distributions will not
> prompt you for a password at all, but simply log you straight on as root
> with full privileges.

This reminds me of a recent problem. I think I don't knwo how to use
linux single. I had a probel and went in this way to fix a file, but
I didn't have permission to save it. How do I deal with this?


-- 
Bob Rea

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		unless enjoyed by one and all
		--Billy Bragg

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