Subject: Re: Cautionary Tale: New Install/root Password/Keyboard Layout
To: Nick <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/05/2003 16:58:53
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:43:05AM +0100, Nick wrote:
> >
> >The quickest way out would have been to hit "SPACE" when you saw the
> >boot prompt, boot to single user with "boot hd0a:netbsd -s", then run
> >"passwd" from the single-user shell. 
> 
> Ah .. but doesn't single-user mode demand the root password anyway
> (like Linuxen seem to these days) ?   [I'm not at the box to try at
> the moment]

It can do (depends on your config) but at this point /etc/rc.d/wscons
hasn't run yet, so you still have the US mapping

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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