How to boot to single user mode in nixos
On a nixos installation how does one boot into single user mode?
On a typical linux installation one would set rw init=/sysroot/bin/sh on the bootloader. But nixos being nixos, it has a path that looks like init=/nix/store/[LONG-HASH]-nixos-system-nixos-18.09.228.80754f5cfd6/init
What is the correct path to /bin/sh? Or is there a better way to boot to single user mode on nixos for the purpose of resetting the root password?
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On a nixos installation how does one boot into single user mode?
On a typical linux installation one would set rw init=/sysroot/bin/sh on the bootloader. But nixos being nixos, it has a path that looks like init=/nix/store/[LONG-HASH]-nixos-system-nixos-18.09.228.80754f5cfd6/init
What is the correct path to /bin/sh? Or is there a better way to boot to single user mode on nixos for the purpose of resetting the root password?
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Single-user mode split into 2 modes about two decades ago and that is not actually how one invokes either one.
– JdeBP
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On a nixos installation how does one boot into single user mode?
On a typical linux installation one would set rw init=/sysroot/bin/sh on the bootloader. But nixos being nixos, it has a path that looks like init=/nix/store/[LONG-HASH]-nixos-system-nixos-18.09.228.80754f5cfd6/init
What is the correct path to /bin/sh? Or is there a better way to boot to single user mode on nixos for the purpose of resetting the root password?
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On a nixos installation how does one boot into single user mode?
On a typical linux installation one would set rw init=/sysroot/bin/sh on the bootloader. But nixos being nixos, it has a path that looks like init=/nix/store/[LONG-HASH]-nixos-system-nixos-18.09.228.80754f5cfd6/init
What is the correct path to /bin/sh? Or is there a better way to boot to single user mode on nixos for the purpose of resetting the root password?
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Single-user mode split into 2 modes about two decades ago and that is not actually how one invokes either one.
– JdeBP
25 mins ago
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Single-user mode split into 2 modes about two decades ago and that is not actually how one invokes either one.
– JdeBP
25 mins ago
Single-user mode split into 2 modes about two decades ago and that is not actually how one invokes either one.
– JdeBP
25 mins ago
Single-user mode split into 2 modes about two decades ago and that is not actually how one invokes either one.
– JdeBP
25 mins ago
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