[Klug-general] Changing root password

[Stuart Brand]

Also if you're in the sudo group you can "sudo passwd root"


On Monday, January 26, 2009, at 02:41PM, "Twigathy" <twigathy at gmail.com> wrote:
>You can hit "e" to edit a line in the grub menu while the machine is
>booting - that is provided you've not passworded off grub and
>forgotton that password too... =)
>
>T
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>2009/1/26 J D Freeman <klug at quixotic.org.uk>:
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>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 02:28:16PM +0000, George Prowse wrote:
>>> If you can't remember the root password just edit grub with "1" at the
>>> end of the kernel line, that will boot you into single user mode
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>> Except you need to be root to edit the grub config...
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>> J
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