LiveCD: How to set rootpassword? Security considerations?

[Peter Garrett]

On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:52:30 +0200
Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 13:43 -0400, Niels Andersen wrote:
> > If you log out you can't get back in, since you don't know the
> > password.  It isn't "ubuntu"!
> 
> Aha, interesting, I didn't know that.

sudo init 1  in, say, tty1. ( no password for sudo on the live CD, and you
will get a root prompt when the system goes to runlevel 1 )
 
init 2         ( you are now back at runlevel 2 , and gdm
should log you in automatically, on the live CD)

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