[Tfug] Ubuntu password

[Jeremy D Rogers]

Couldn't you boot a live cd (or ubuntu install cd), sudo su, chroot /,
and passwd?

--
Jeremy D. Rogers, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University


On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Andrew Lenards
<andrew.lenards at gmail.com> wrote:
> No clue on the validity of this ... and I haven't pulled this trick myself -
> if you don't have a GRUB password I know that you should be able to recover
> the root password through Trick #4:
>
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-10sysadtips/index.html?ca=drs-
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Christopher Robbins <robbinsc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Do you have the root password?
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Don Freeman <DFreeman at pagnet.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well I did it again. I let my Ubuntu install sit several months unused
>>> and have forgotten my username and password. Is there a way to recover or do
>>> I need to reinstall?
>>>
>>> Don W. Freeman
>>> Special Projects Manager
>>> Pima Association of Governments
>>> 177 N. Church Ave. #405
>>> Tucson AZ 85701
>>> (520) 792-1093 voice
>>> (520) 620-6981 fax
>>>
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>> Chris Robbins
>> Systems Programmer
>> Department of English - University of Arizona
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