Get Out Of Jail Free!

[Gregory Nowak]

When you try alt+f2 right after booting up, you need to login first, then type whatever command you want.
Greg


On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 07:49:00AM +0300, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> Thank you for su command. I never heard about it.
> 
> I've tried alt+f2, then typing emacspeak, but nothing happend. I will try
> with Control+alt+f2, and I hope it will work.
> 
> Thanks./
> Teddy,
> orasnita at home.ro
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 6:43 AM
> Subject: Re: Get Out Of Jail Free!
> 
> 
> On Mon, 20 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> 
> > Q: How to become root in another console?
> 
> Use Ctrl-Alt-FX (where X is a number 1 to 6) meaning use the
> function keys on the top row of the qwerty keyboard. You know
> what function keys are, right?
> 
> Use this key cvombination to go to a console where you are not
> logged in and login as root.
> 
> Alternatively, I believe you wrote the other day that you telnet
> to your linux machine from your Windows machine? Well, if emacs
> seems to go bad on you, go to your Windows machine and open a
> telnet session to your Linux machine. Just because emacs isn't
> talking doesn't mean your machine is dead.
> 
> If you're already logged in via telnet from Windows as whatever
> you use for your username, type:
> 
> su -
> 
> and provide the root password.
> 
> Actually, there's no reason not to open several telnet sessions
> from your Windows machine. Your Windows is capable of that, isn't
> it?
> > Q: How can I read the screen if emacspeak is not speaking? I want to find
> > out the PID of the process I should kill.
> >
> In a different console or a different telnet session. You can
> open more than one at a time, you know. This is Linux, not
> Windows.
> 
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