gentoo go good

[Joshua Bergland]

This won't work in Gentoo... You have to know the root password to 
startup the system in maintanence (single user) mode.

Josh

Dre G. wrote:

>I already replied a bit ago to the orginal poster here but I wanted to 
>just say to the group
>Whats wrong with good old single user mode ?
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>ALOT Less work, All hes trying to do is reset the root password
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>linux single
>append s under lilo
>or init 1
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>On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Joshua Bergland wrote:
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>>clarification:
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>>To make it easier, I would boot up and do an 'less /etc/fstab' and right 
>>down which partitions there are and where they are mounted, that way all 
>>you have to do is mount them...
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>>Do that step on the running gentoo system, before you reboot and boot 
>>off of the install cd
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>>Josh
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>>Joshua Bergland wrote:
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>>>You want to head over to forums.gentoo.org ... lots of good info and 
>>>helpful people ... if you feel comfortable enough, you can download 
>>>the install iso image and burn that to a cd, and then use the gentoo 
>>>install document (link below) and follow it up to the point of running 
>>>the 'chroot' command to get into the gentoo linux environment on the 
>>>system... you are then actually logged into the system as root and can 
>>>run 'passwd' to change the root password.
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>>>Here is the link, it contains links to the install images ... Of 
>>>course, just skip the part about creating the filesystems and since 
>>>your not doing anything with the network, you can skip that part 
>>>too... To make it easier, I would boot up and do an 'less /etc/fstab' 
>>>and right down which partitions there are and where they are mounted, 
>>>that way all you have to do is mount them... So I guess that means, 
>>>boot with the cd, and do steps 7 & 8, and then run the 'passwd' 
>>>command, and then reboot the system... You then can log into the 
>>>system as root ... In Gentoo, if you want to be able to 'su' to root, 
>>>add her user to the 'wheel' group.
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>>>http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
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>>>Josh
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>>>David Reynolds wrote:
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>>>>On Tuesday 29 April 2003 08:30 pm, Eric Rossiter proclaimed:
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>>>>>Hey everyone,
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>>>>>Gentoo is slick, man... been slowly getting acclimated and I have a few
>>>>>questions, if I may.
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>>>>I've got a friend who was 'given' gentoo by her ex, but either I am 
>>>>not as smart as I think I am, or she has been severely crippled.
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>>>>Her ex did not give her a root password. Hence, she cannot do things 
>>>>like change the time, emerge/update programs, or a host of other 
>>>>things I do regularly on my system. Now he's shipped out and she has 
>>>>no access to him for a month plus. When she types 'groups', she gets 
>>>>only 'users'; my account on my computer on the other hand has about a 
>>>>dozen groups I am member of. Which is to be expected?
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>>>>>As a normal user, I can't start gdm or kdm, tells me only root wants to
>>>>>do that.  I tried the fix suggested in the gentoo forums to no avail.
>>>>>Any other ideas?
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>>>>Where are these forums please? And would they be ANY help to a person 
>>>>just starting off of Windows? I feel bad that I am about to send her 
>>>>back to Windows, but I did suggest trying something like Mandrake or 
>>>>RedHat.
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>>>>>Thanks for your time.
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>>>>Hope I'm not intruding on your thread,
>>>>David
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