[nmglug] dude, wheres my password?

[Sam Noble]

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 15:05 -0600, Ed Brown wrote:
> Here's one more suggestion, 'cause I think it's simpler than anything
> suggested so far, though perhaps only by a little.  And it doesn't
> require a rescue cd.   
> 
> Just replace 'init=/bin/bash' in Karl's suggestion with 'single', or
> even '1', to boot into single user mode. You'll get your root prompt
> without having to login.   You don't have to mount or remount anything. 
> Just run passwd, and type exit, and you'll go straight to your default
> runlevel, without having to reboot.

Ed, this doesn't work on many distros. It will get you to the place you
want, but then asks for the root password. However on Mandrake, older RH
(suse maybe?) and perhaps ubuntu warty, but definitely not Debian it
will work.
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