[nmglug] dude, wheres my password?

[Sam Noble]

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 18:20 -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> mount -o remount,ro /
>  reboot
> 
> ... and let it boot normally.  You will now have a new root password.

Karl, does this part actually work for you? Whenever I've done this I've
never been able to get the machine to shut down cleanly due to initctl
stuff. I'm pretty sure I've tried the readonly-remount thing too.

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