The "missing" password!

Sajan Parikh sajan at parikh.io
Mon Mar 31 01:43:04 UTC 2014


On 03/30/2014 08:30 PM, Niles Rogoff wrote:
> I believe you must enter the root password in order to boot into 
> recovery mode.

If RecoveryMode is (or similar to) single user mode for other 
distributions, you won't need any sort of password at all.  It'll give 
you an option to drop to a shell and that's it, you're root. It's how 
I've recovered (by changing) the root password on many boxes for clients.




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