[Ilugc] Tips of the day (Lost Root Password)
- From: roshan@xxxxxxxxx (Roshan George)
- Date: Tue Jan 12 19:39:50 2010
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 19:27 +0530, Sreekanth B wrote:
isn't this a old way, can't we go to single user mode (passing a argument
in grub/lilo) and do the password reset ?
I've always just added 'single' to the kernel line in grub but I use
only Ubuntu and thought that the fact that it gave you a chance to be
root without any password was a result of it not having a root password.
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Roshan George <roshan@xxxxxxxxx>
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