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From: "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
To: Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Single user mode in GuixSD
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:03:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875zwbdj0h.fsf@lassieur.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8fxl5z4.fsf@fastmail.com>

Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com> writes:

> <znavko@tutanota.com> writes:
>
>> Hello, Guix Help! Once I've lost root password and need to restore root password in GuixSD.
>>
>
> If you've lost the root password, I don't believe there is much that we
> can do.  You might just have to reinstall.  :()

No, if you have physical access, you can read and modify everything on
your data storage device if you boot from another distro and thus use
the data storage device as an external device.  :-)

>> I've tried to press 'e' in GRUB, added init=/bin/sh and booted into it.
>>
>> But login screen appeared, if it was the usual boot. And I need to use usb-stick, mount file system, delay root hash from /etc/shadow.
>>
>> Please, how to get single-user mode in GuixSD?

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-03 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-30 16:02 Single user mode in GuixSD znavko
2018-12-01 13:41 ` Joshua Branson
2018-12-03 10:03   ` Clément Lassieur [this message]
2018-12-01 17:13 ` Tonton

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