[nmglug] dude, wheres my password?

[joe at highmayhem.com]

Well the thing is that, it's not my laptop with the problem which does 
run ubuntu. It's my desktop which is running fedora2.
I'm using my ubuntu live CD to boot with for this process because I 
don't have a copy of knoppix.

Sam Noble wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 22:42 +0200, joe at highmayhem.com wrote:
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>>Thanks guys, 
>>I'm trying jason's idea.
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>Joe, we're all having fun discussing different ways to replace a lost
>password... but I totally suspect in your case JD was right and you
>*don't* have a root password to lose. That's the normal situation for an
>ubuntu install. It's been said a few times but perhaps overlooked in all
>this geekno-gobbledy-gook.
>
>To get root access on your box, you login as your regular user:
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>login: joe
>pass: <joespass>
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>then su - using sudo.
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>$ sudo su -
>pass: <joespass>  <-- not <rootspass>
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>If you want a root password, just do this once and then when you've
>gotten root via sudo you can easily set a password:
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># passwd
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>See?
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>>This is what happened when i did fdisk. It tells me "here disk is
>>something like" bla blabla or bla bla bla. When did computer start
>>speaking in such vauge terms?
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>>root at ubuntu:~ # fdisk 1
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>you need the -
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>>Unable to open 1
>>root at ubuntu:~ # fdisk -1
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>You need to be using the lowercase L not the numeral one.
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>But like I say I doubt you need to be doing this.
>sam
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