On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Colin Murphy wrote:
> I recently had a corrupt HD on my Dapper desktop system and had a prompt
> thrown at me for the 'root password' by the minimal rescue system
The prompt only occurs if a root password *has been set*. Out of the box,
Ubuntu is configured to use 'sudo' and if you select '(recovery mode)' you
will get a superuser-prompt, no password prompt questions asked.
In the case that [after an out-of-the-box installation] a 'root' password
has been manually specifically set at any point, then either:
(a) the password needs to be found
(b) the password can be reset/removed by:
Booting with:
linux init=/bin/sh # Load a shell as the first program, not init
and then manually running commands to:
mount / -oremount,rw # Make the root partition writable
passwd -l # Clear the user-set root password
sync # Force write the change to disk
mount / -oremount,ro # Unmount/mount read-only again
-Paul
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