Laurie Brown wrote:
Toby Jaffey wrote:
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 10:41:53PM +0100, Dave Cook wrote:
Can somebody help me please? I need to access my Linux files from within windoze. I've managed to lose my password so I can't log on to Linux.
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But, it's easier to just boot into single.
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That only works if you're using Red Hat or similar, it's disabled in SuSE, for instance, by default. If it is disabled (and it should be), then tom's floppy Linux will do the trick: http://www.toms.net/rb/ There are loads of places with help on the net, and a trawl through http://www.deja.com (search discussions) will answer most questions.
I believe it also still asks you for the password under some distros. I have, as yet, not found anything that disables this: linux init=/bin/sh
you'll probably want to remount the root partition read write once you've been dropped to the prompt: mount -o remount,rw /
[it's a good idea, when physical access can be gained to a box, to use the lilo options restricted and password as you can see :)]