Fedora 7 and lv problems
Kristian Hermansen
kristian.hermansen-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Aug 1 15:56:01 EDT 2007
On 8/1/07, Scott Ehrlich <scott-3s7WtUTddSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I now need to access /etc/passwd to force-change the password to blank to
> log into an account. Knoppix 5.1.1 can see the lvm via lvdisplay but
> cannot do anything with it.
Of course, there is always the init=/bin/sh hack. From there, then
you can just remove the 'x' and leave it as '::' in /etc/passwd for
root, which will drop you to a shell without a password...
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Kristian Hermansen
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