On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 07:49:07PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 07:35:00PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > with a slight difference. So now I have an unk pw set for root, and will > > likely have to re-install, again if I reboot..... > > Nonsense. You can set a new root password with "sudo passwd root" any > time you wish, even without knowing the existing root password.
Or, should that fail, get your install media, boot in rescue mode, let that mount your disks (it conveniently offers to do so), edit /etc/passwd (your root file system is probably mounted under /target, so it will be /target/etc/passwd). Not trivial, but not exceedingly hard either. Cheers -- t
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