On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Niall O Broin wrote:
> Mounting R/O will make editing the password file a tad tricky, no?
Ah tad yes.. And my vague memory is that Linux defaults to ro too for
Solaris UFS, write support not being safe.
> But as the Yank mentioned, the easiest option may be boot -s UNLESS
> the box is configured to ask for the password then anyway.
yep.
regards,
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