Re: Boot normally, but give me a root shell

[Joachim Backes]

On 10/08/16 17:35, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 1:25 AM, Tim <[e-mail]
> > wrote:
> The old run level one (whatever they call it, these days), was a basic,
> isolated from the network, text-only, login.
>
>
> It still is, except that it requires "Give root password" before you can
> get a shell, at least in a vanilla system.

Greg,

if you add "init=/bin/bash" to the grub line, there is simply a root 
shell started (with id=0), so no password is required, but you have root 
rights.

Kind regards

Joachim Backes
> --Greg
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