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Re: too many commands, "help" output rolls of screen
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Thomas Schwinge |
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Re: too many commands, "help" output rolls of screen |
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Tue, 7 Oct 2008 11:56:52 +0200 |
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Hello!
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:29:38AM +0800, address@hidden wrote:
> P.S., What if I forget my password and I cannot login to my machine?
> The best I can do is
> grub> cat (hd0,1)/etc/passwd
> How can I edit it to zero out the :x: field?
You want to boot your kernel with some sort of ``emergency shell''
option, like ``init=/bin/sh'' for the Linux kernel.
> Could you supply ed(1) in the commands perhaps?
GRUB's file system and disk driver support is read-only.
Regards,
Thomas
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