On Saturday 13 October 2007 09:26, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Oct 13 2007 08:03, Glenn Holmer wrote:
You can just enter "init=/bin/sh" on the Boot Options line of the GRUB boot screen. The system will boot straight into bash and you can use your favorite editor on /etc/shadow.
... which is the way how it has been done ever since. But you need /bin/bash otherwise you get, as pointed out, a sh-compat shell.
I don't see how that matters if all you're using it for is to invoke an editor against a single file and then reboot...
After removing the password, use ctrl-alt-delete to restart the machine (if you use "exit" or control-D, you get a kernel panic / hard wait).
Actually, you use
umount -a reboot -f
Thanks, but ctrl-alt-del is quite a few less keystrokes. On the other hand...
And I don't see why passwd would not work. Just make sure your root volume is actually read-write
Yes, that was the case, but I think it's an issue with XFS, which tends to be less forgiving in situations like this. Cf. this bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=326942 which didn't bother people running ext3 or reiser. I tried the procedure again using the above two commands and did not see the problem. Thanks, filed for future reference. -- "After the vintage season came the aftermath - and Cenbe." Glenn Holmer (Q-Link: ShadowM) http://www.lyonlabs.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org