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Old 06-11-2002, 12:52 PM   #1
majon96
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How get to the prompt before login


I've read some threads here talking about getting into som files before they login, how do I do that?
 
Old 06-11-2002, 01:01 PM   #2
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what kind of "files" are you talking about? what do you want to achieve?
 
Old 06-11-2002, 01:46 PM   #3
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LOL, you sure can, if you tell your bootloader to tell the kernel to run /bin/bash instead of /sbin/init... I won't tell you how exactly, let you figure that one out. Be warned, however, this procedure is risky!
 
  


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