Login to Single user mode in SUSE Linux (SLES / openSUSE)

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Pradeep Kumar
Sep 11, 2015

For troubleshooting point of view sometime we have to login in single user mode in Linux to execute commands like reseting root password in case if system admin forget the root password and run fsck command if the file system got corrupted.

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Pradeep Kumar

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