Torrent Suite SoftwareAdministration Guide


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Boot Into Single-User Mode

You may sometimes need to boot the Torrent Server host into single user mode. One reason would be if you forgot and need to reset your password.

  1. Reboot the server. A hard reboot may be needed if there is no way to login to the system.

  2. Immediately after the BIOS completes, press the Esc key to display the grub menu:





  3. Press the E key to edit the boot command line.

  4. Scroll down to the linux ... command and scroll to the end of the line.

  5. Add the word single to the end of the line:





  6. Press Ctrl-X to boot.

  7. At the next window, scroll down to the netroot option and press Enter:



You are now logged into the system with root privileges.