[aklug] Re: Standard CD for quick shell environment

Quoting Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>:

> Is there some kind of general purpose CD when you need to boot into a
> shell and edit files on Linux partition? I screwed up my sudoers file on
> one of my PCs, and I need to boot up as root and edit the file. I could do
> this with an Ubuntu live-CD I think, but I was curious what the real sys
> admins use when they need to do this sort of thing. (Plus I don't need a DE.)
>

You should be able to use a live CD. Also, most distros have a
"rescue" mode of some sort. Sometimes it is as simple as passing a
paramater to the boot line.

Mike B.

----------------------------------------------------------------
This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

---------
To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org>
with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
Received on Mon Jan 5 16:28:16 2009