The "missing" password!

[Martín Cigorraga]

That's why it's always a good practice to at least set a password for GRUB
and BIOS!


On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Sajan Parikh <sajan at parikh.io> wrote:

> 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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/Martin
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