Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password
On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 12:38 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 11:33 +0000, Tom Furie wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:22:10PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 05:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >
> > > > If another OS had not been available but I knew the root
> > > > password, is there some way I could have gained access as root?
> > >
> > > If you remember the root password, than I don't understand your problem.
> >
> > My first instinct would be to suppose that he's disabled root logins.
>
> My apologise, that's a good thought. For my Debian and Arch installs I
> have a root account + the ability to use sudo.
PS:
That explains the reason for this:
> I solved the immediate problem by rebooting to the install on sda1 and
> using it to examine /etc/passwd on sda7.
I was completely wrong, while Scott at least had no doubts about UID
1000 :D. JFTR the default UID for the first user, when using FreeBSD is
1001, however, for all Linux distros I ever used it was 1000.
But Tom seems to be the only smart person among us :(, so an abuse to
the OT: NEXT TIME DON'T CALL THE FIRST USER "ROOT" :(. Especially not
when it's weekend and people tend to turn of their brains.
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