Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins

Re:Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins by rw on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @02:15PM (#254579)

Regarding tip #4, resetting the root password: Usually one needs to type "sync" afterward to make the changes persist after a reboot.

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Re:Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins by nuclear_eclipse on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @03:49PM (#254683)

Also of note is that on (some?) Debian-based systems, particularly Ubuntu, single user mode will still require you to enter the root user's password before you gain console access... In this case, your only hope is a LiveCD and chroot...

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Re:Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins by dmuino on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @05:05PM (#254771)

instead of 1 append init=/bin/sh to the kernel command line.

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