technical question

Sam Gordon sesanach at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 06:25:21 UTC 2007


working with linux is harder then flying a plane for me lol....ive never
used it before im a windows person and my friend is trying to successfully
pull me away from it

On 10/4/07, Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
> That would be the command prompt :)
>
> Linux users who haven't seen a shell before. Fancy this wondrous modern
> age we live in. Type the following:
>
> passwd root
>
> and you can change the root password. Then type
>
> passwd <your friend's username here>
>
> and you can change his password.
>
> Sam Gordon wrote:
> > im probably buggin the hell out of u and im sorry....it rebooted it
> > after i wrote single in the line for the kernels but now its stuck at
> > sh-3.1#
> > and doesnt load anything
> >
> > On 10/4/07, *Casey Dahlin* <cjdahlin at ncsu.edu
> > <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu>> wrote:
> >
> >     Modify kernel arguments. You want to add 'single' to the end of the
> >     arguments list.
> >
> >     Sam Gordon wrote:
> >     > hey wow that was fast cool...ok im in some screen and its says GNU
> >     > GRUB vr. 0.97
> >     > Fedora Core( 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
> >     > i guess its like a boot window...i cant like edit commands before
> >     > booting, modify kernel arguments before booting, or go to
> >     command line...
> >     > is this where i type what u said or the main login window after
> the
> >     > system starts up?
> >     > cuz i tried /etc/passwd and that didnt work at all...and u
> attached
> >     > something do i input that sumwhere?
> >     >
> >     > On 10/4/07, *Casey Dahlin* < cjdahlin at ncsu.edu
> >     <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu>
> >     > <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu <mailto:cjdahlin at ncsu.edu>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     Sam Gordon wrote:
> >     >     > hi i got a question..my friend installed fedora on my pc
> >     and put in
> >     >     > the username password and now he doesnt remember it lol..and
> i
> >     >     have no
> >     >     > idea what it is because he installed it...is there a way to
> >     >     override
> >     >     > the login or somehow bypass it and change the information?
> >     plz just
> >     >     > tell me what my options r in the matter
> >     >
> >     >     This list is for development discussion. For help and
> >     support you
> >     >     should
> >     >     try fedoraforum.org <http://fedoraforum.org>
> >     <http://fedoraforum.org> or #fedora on
> >     >     irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net>
> >     <http://irc.freenode.net> . That being said,
> >     >     from the grub screen, edit your default boot settings and
> >     add the word
> >     >     'single' (without quotes) to the end of the line mentioning
> >     >     'vmlinuz' .
> >     >     When you boot, you will get a text-only shell with root
> >     privileges.
> >     >
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