This didn't work for me - upon remounting, passwd behaves the same way and even trying to shutdown, I get "shutdown: Unable to send message: Connection refused" I guess more searching is needed to find out how I can change my password. Raymond Norton wrote: > Elvedin Trnjanin wrote: > >> I've tried this on my laptop after forgetting all of my passwords and >> it did drop me to a root shell. When I tried to do a 'passwd' to >> change mine, it only allowed me to type in one character before >> accepting it as an entry. Look out for that issue so you don't >> overwrite the password to an account you do know the password to. >> >> If you have better luck, please report back. >> > > I was adding "single" to the end of the line, but it did not work. > > It did work for me with just "init=/bin/bash", and remounting the file > system rw > > mount -o remount,rw / > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >