On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 14:42 -0500, Robert Heller wrote: > At Thu, 3 Feb 2011 20:12:17 +0100 CentOS mailing list > <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > > Yes, but S|Single|1 asks for root password to login ... > > And he doesn't have the root password ;) > RedHat / RHEL / CentOS does not do that! At least never on any of my > machines -- Agreed. Adding 'single' to the kernel boot line boots up in run level 1 and no password is required. My system is 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 17:52:25 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU.