[Novalug] Root password problem

Wei Wu Wei wei.wu.wei.1@gmail.com
Mon Dec 28 18:53:08 EST 2009


It works for me. I've never had an incompatibility. Plus you only have to
make a CD once. Hopefully, you make one before you're up a creek, that way
when the "up the creek" moment comes, the paddle is already in the canoe.
Thanks for sharing your view point.
~JD


On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Peter Larsen <
plarsen@famlarsen.homelinux.com> wrote:

>  On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 16:29 -0500, Wei Wu Wei wrote:
>
> I agree. Fastest way to handle it is Kupchik/EBCDhttp://www.prime-expert.com/ebcd/
>
>
> Fastest?? Not even close. Including incertainties with matching glibc on
> your boot with your own system. The fastest is by far a simply reboot into
> single mode - or as this case showed was available, getting root privs
> through other means (sudo for instance) without entering root password.
>
> IF you have the media, either live or recovery media, that matches the
> version you have on your system, then the process isn't even faster but
> possible.
>
> I'm a big fan of recovery CDs etc. that allow me to diagnose and fix
> problems on an OS. But usually they're only needed when the root file-system
> is unavailable.
>
> I'll never be convinced that it's "faster" to ask a user to first download,
> burn and then "pray" it matches your system when you try to chroot in
> instead of simply booting natively into run level 1.
>
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