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From: Mateusz Marzantowicz <mateuszm@server.pl>
Subject: Re: (Summary) inittab problem
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:35:33 +0100
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Jim C. Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:51:37PM -0000, Dermot Paikkos wrote:
> 
>>I thought I had tried all the tty (alt+fn) but I didn't see a login prompt 
>>when I looked. Perhaps I was a bit quick.
>>
> 
> 
> You should see a prompt like this
> 
> #

But not on Slackware, It's more secure Linux distro than others and even 
on single user mode you are asked for user name and password.

> 
> single user mode doesnt look for a login, you're automaticly put into root.
>

This is not true on Slackware.

> 
>>Thanx again.
>>Dp.
> 
>