Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password
On 15/03/14 22:33, 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.
For the GUI perhaps - that's the default for the DE's I'm familiar
with - but it in no way prohibits logins to a vconsole. And AFAIK you
can simply kill the X server and login to the console that way.
>
> Cheers, Tom
>
Kind regards
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