The "missing" password!

[Niles Rogoff]

On my device it says `Enter root password for maintenance (or control+D to
exit)'. Also, according to the link that you sent, while yes the partition
is mounted automatically, it is mounted as read only, and must be manually
mounted from the command line.


On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Sajan Parikh <sajan at parikh.io> wrote:

> On 03/30/2014 08:30 PM, Niles Rogoff wrote:
>
>> I believe you must enter the root password in order to boot into recovery
>> mode.
>>
>
> If RecoveryMode is (or similar to) single user mode for other
> distributions, you won't need any sort of password at all.  It'll give you
> an option to drop to a shell and that's it, you're root. It's how I've
> recovered (by changing) the root password on many boxes for clients.
>
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