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 -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.19.8-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Tue May 12 17:42:35 UTC 2015 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
