On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 10:22 -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
wrote:
Did that in addition to changing root in /etc/shadow. It booted and
gave me a text screen I've never seen before asking to set language,
password, etc. I set the password but apparently did not close it
correctly, it didn't work and worse yet that apparently only comes up
once. I can't get back to it, it goes directly to the graphic login
screen and I have no keyboard/mouse control which I would like to
investigate via ssh ...
Not something to do with firstboot or initial-setup? I seem to recall
that if you dropped a dot prefixed filename into the root directory,
it'd be read at boot time, and go through the firstboot setup routine.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirstBoot
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/InitialSetup
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tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.19.8-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Tue May 12 17:42:35 UTC 2015 i686
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George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.