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  From: Andrew Harwood <aaharwoo@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : Toby Corkindale <tjcorkin@steadycom.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 18:00:13 +1030 (CST)

Re: Login

On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Toby Corkindale wrote:

<snip>
> Yes, and to FIX the problem, which is probably what he want's to know,
> you need to do this:
> boot up your PC, as per usual, and when you get the lilo prompt, enter
> linux single
> 
> instead of hitting enter for the default, or just typing linux<enter>./
> If you call linux something else, obviously type that instead.
> (newlinux, linux223, or whatever. linux is the default though from a new
> install)

Or he could just log in as root, using the password he intended to be for
the user, or if you prefer, log in as the user (who should have a blank
password, then su to root with the new password). Saves rebooting the
machine.

<snip, snip, snip> 

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Andrew Harwood             3rd Year Bachelor of Computer Science student 
aaharwoo@cs.adelaide.edu.au                       University of Adelaide

Apple and Microsoft working together in harmony? I'd like to see that.
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