newbie: login with no password. Help!

[ChrisM]

Sanibona** ubuntu-users!

Your combined advice sorted the problem for me!  recovery - shadow 
(interesting but no user - my Esc key action meant that I was not a user 
in the first place) - adduser got me in and on.  I now have a working 
ubuntu partition and soon a working ubuntu workstation.

Thanks again,

ChrisM
** 'Hello all' in Zulu.

Neil Woolford wrote:
> At 18:22 11/12/04, you wrote:
> 
>> How can you login as root when Ubuntu installs with an 
>> unknown/scrambled root password?
>>
>> ...ROMeyn
> 
> 
> Easy if you have physical access to the machine.
> 
> Start up and watch for the Grub loading message;  the instant this 
> appears press the Esc key
> which will bring up the Grub menu.  From this select the 'Recovery 
> mode'.  This will start you
> at a root console.
> 
> I haven't double checked as I don't want to add a user to my system 
> right now, but 'adduser' is
> certainly available at the prompt.
> 
> Neil
> 
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