[Ilugc] Root password - regd.

T.R.Shashwath trshash84 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 12 18:48:01 IST 2004


The command is:
# mount / -o remount,rw

If you don't do that, it'll complain. The remount option is essential.

On Sunday 12 Dec 2004 6:07 am, you wrote:
> "T.R.Shashwath" <trshash84 at gmail.com> writes:
> > Did you mount the root partition as read-write? That might be
> > the trick here - if / is read only, nothing changes. :-)
>
> But the program would complain that it was not able to do it.. (it
> should)

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Shash

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