Subject: Re: pam dying in upgrade
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Pavel Cahyna <cahyna@pc313.imc.cas.cz>
List: current-users
Date: 09/20/2005 21:13:02
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:54:55 -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
>>} And remember, an NFS filesystem mounted without nosuid can save your life.
>
>> So can /rescue.
>
> Not useful in this case. The question is "how do I get this machine cleanly
> shut down so I can boot single-user" or otherwise "how can I get sysadmin
> privileges". Tragically, my notion of /rescue/rootshell has never gone over
> well. :p
Jump to DDB and type "kill 1".
Bye Pavel