On Monday, 3. January 2005 13.29, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > El jue, 30-12-2004 a las 13:28 -0400, Derek Broughton escribiÃ: > [...] > > > Ubuntu installed on my Dell Inspiron right out of the box. Too bad I > > forgot what I used for the root password :-) > > Boot from Ubuntu Live CD or Knoppix, mount root partition on /mnt or > something like that, edit /et/passwd, delete the 'x' between your user > and uid. Reboot with your usual installation from HD. Your root's > password should be blank now. > > Cheers,
or try "sudo su" as far as I know Ubuntu doesn't set a root pwd. Greets
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