root password

[John DeCarlo]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Martin Laberge <mlsoft at videotron.ca> wrote:

> But when the system cant boot and stop in admin mode, it asks for the ROOT
> passwd.
> I believe it is the kernel or the init task who ask for the ROOT passwd at
> this moment.
> As follows:
>
> Root filesystem mounted read only.
> Please enter the root password to enter admin mode or press Ctrl-D to
> continue :
>
> This happened to me once, and I install a password for root from this time
> on.
>

I have played around with Ubuntu/Kubuntu for some time.  If the system can't
boot - like the boot drive has disappeared (yes, I have messed up Grub that
way), it drops you into single user mode.  No root password is asked for,
because there is none.

So Kubuntu has thought of this already - no issue.
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