[CentOS] Lost root access

Thu Feb 3 20:23:53 UTC 2011
Always Learning <centos at g7.u22.net>

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


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With best regards,

Paul.
England,
EU.