[Novalug] root password buggered

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Tue May 26 12:09:20 EDT 2015


by default it should be mounted by most liveCD. That is why I gave my
answer, easier.

To see what is mounted
    df
If you don't see /dev/sdXY mounted, then you will need to find and mount
   lvmscan
   fdisk -l
will help you find partitions
   mount /<output from above command> /mnt
   ls /mnt/etc/passwd
the ls should show the file, if so
   chroot /mnt
   passwd
   (enter 2x)
   exit
   reboot (and remove media)



On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Beartooth <beartooth@beartooth.info>
wrote:

> 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??
>
> --
> Beartooth Implacable, Curmudgeon On Line
> They say it's a great life, if you don't weaken.
>



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