The "missing" password!

[Martín Cigorraga]

Niles: booting from a live Ubuntu will grant you unrestricted access over
target storage device as long as it isn't encrypted.


On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Niles Rogoff <nilesrogoff at gmail.com>wrote:

> On my device it says `Enter root password for maintenance (or control+D to
> exit)'. Also, according to the link that you sent, while yes the partition
> is mounted automatically, it is mounted as read only, and must be manually
> mounted from the command line.
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Sajan Parikh <sajan at parikh.io> wrote:
>
>> On 03/30/2014 08:30 PM, Niles Rogoff wrote:
>>
>>> I believe you must enter the root password in order to boot into
>>> recovery mode.
>>>
>>
>> If RecoveryMode is (or similar to) single user mode for other
>> distributions, you won't need any sort of password at all.  It'll give you
>> an option to drop to a shell and that's it, you're root. It's how I've
>> recovered (by changing) the root password on many boxes for clients.
>>
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