In a stream of Random Thoughts ..

Musings and rummaging …

Booting Into Rescue Mode

Recently I had a small issue where after a update and reboot of my workstation, I could no longer log in. After some searching around I did establish it was a pam problem.

Being in-front of the workstation adding the following to the boot entry (kernel config), enabled a password less shell on tty9, which allowed me to fix the issue pretty easily.

systemd.debug-shell

This is mostly just a note for my self, when I am going to need it later on.