[LUAU] Boot Floppy

[Christopher Banal]

Steve,

	If you just forgot your password and when you boot you still get
the lilo prompt yoy might be able to gain acess to your system by typing
"single" after the name you have specified for the linux drive i.e.

lilo: linux single

	Linux will then boot up as super user and you can go into your
/etc/passwd and delete the password field. Should look something like
this when your done. Reboot your computer again and you should be able to
logon as root with no password.

root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh

Chris Banal

 On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Steve Anderson wrote:

> A few weeks I read somewhere (here or newsgroups),
> about how to boot up your system into root when you
> don't know the root password. It was something about
> booting from a floppy. Of course, this depends on the
> privileges allowed for fd0 in /etc/fstab.
> What kind of boot floppy would I need that could
> boot into root without a password.
> Thanks, Steve
> 
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