MILO - single-user startup

John Armstrong (john@lrf.leeds.ac.uk)
Mon, 09 Feb 1998 17:11:18 +0000

Is there a way at the MILO prompt to restart my Linux/Alpha machine in
single-user mode? I haven't found anything in any of the MILO documentation
that I have access to. (Apologies if this is another FAQ ...)

Somehow my root password has 'become corrupted' so I have no privileged
account on this machine. I cannot do a controlled shutdown from any of my
non-privileged accounts, nor can I edit the password file. I hoped to do a
single-user startup so I can remedy the situation - I imagined that there
might be a suitable MILO boot-string to pass to the kernel for this. Is
there?

I don't want to shutdown and 'try it out' at the moment, because this machine
acts as a mail server for some of our incoming email, and is set to restart
without the network interfaces activated ... no root, no networks, no mail!

Thanks

John Armstrong Computer System Adminstrator
john@lrf.leeds.ac.uk LRF Centre at Leeds University
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Leeds LS2 9NG
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