[Novalug] root password buggered

Beartooth beartooth@Beartooth.Info
Tue May 26 12:03:40 EDT 2015


On Tue, 26 May 2015, John Kennedy wrote:

> You could also boot to a Live Linux CD (does not matter which 
> distro) and either chroot your environment and change the 
> password or you could edit the sudoers file and give yourself 
> sudo access to root so you can change the password after 
> booting.

 	I don't do sudo. With a live CD, don't I have to mount my 
hard drive? Is it obvious how to do that, for instance if I open 
File System in the GUI??

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