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From: gryphon@msgi.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help! No root login, no backdoor
Date: 13 Jun 1995 17:55:16 -0400
Organization: MSG, Inc. (Burlington, MA)
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Sender: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@msgi.com>
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References: <DA4p5A.4vs@tigger.jvnc.net>
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Keywords: help root backdoor
In article <DA4p5A.4vs@tigger.jvnc.net>,
JvNCnet ENS Users <bucks@tigger.jvnc.net> wrote:
>Help! I messed up my .xsession file in the /root dir and can't log
>in! I can't even su 'cuz the only other account is guest. Is there
>a way to boot into single user with write enabled on /? The -s flag
>seems to want to mount the root file system as read-only.
Boot single user as normal (the "-s" option if memory serves)
and then do a "mount -u /" to make the root partition read-write.
-coranth
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