What you did was replace init with a shell. That means all the things init normally does, you have to do. That includes mounting filesystems rw to get going, and then ro when done. It also means shutdown wont work. Just unmount all partitions you can, and remount ro / , then kill the power. Its not clean, but it should work. If you didnt remount it ro, your filesystem changes may have only been in memory when you rebooted, thus not saved. Its important to always unmount your filesystems cleanly, or you may suffer corruption or other oddness. Jay Elvedin Trnjanin wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list