Root password

Rashkae ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Mon Mar 12 23:09:51 UTC 2012


On 03/12/2012 06:26 PM, Bill Stanley wrote:
>
> Wonderful!  But don't I need to know the sudo password?  This sounds 
> like it is sudo stuff to me.  Does booting into the recovery mode 
> allow me root access?
>
>
> Bill Stanley
>
The Ubuntu Recovery option should give you root access.  Changing 
init=/bin/bash (I said /bin/sh in my original message, but in Ubuntu, 
you probably want to use bash) completely bypasses any kind of login.

Please reply to list.  Aside from being good netiquette, that will also 
allow others to review the conversation.  I'm prone to careless errors.








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