[nmglug] dude, wheres my password?

Ed Brown ebrown at lanl.gov
Wed Apr 13 14:33:45 PDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 15:15, Sam Noble wrote:
> 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.

Sam,
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
My Debian dumbness exposed!  Well, though they seem to be dirty words on
this list anymore, this DOES work for Fedora and RedHat Enterprise
linuxes, including current versions (FC3, RHEL4).

And the fun's over anyway, since you went and explained all about Ubuntu
and passwords!

=),
Ed





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