Changing Root Passwords without a Live CD

[Robert Brockway]

On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> mount updates /etc/mtab after doing its work, so in this case it isn't
> necesary.

Oh I see what you mean.  I swear I've had to do it both ways (rw & ro) but 
maybe there has been a change in behaviour in mount, or maybe I was being 
extra cautious.

Cheers,

Rob

-- 
Email: robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org
IRC: Solver
Web: http://www.practicalsysadmin.com
I tried to change the world but they had a no-return policy
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists