Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password
On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 22:53 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 15/03/14 22:43, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Saturday 15 March 2014 11:33:50 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.
> >
> > Then, Tom, why has Richard got a root password for the system? Surely
> > Debian only gives you the chance to set a root password if you enable
> > root?
>
> 1++
Tom is smarter than we are, it's likely that his guess is correct. The
OP confused the term for
no root account, but the first user has got sudo admin super cow powers,
with a pure and clean enabled root account.
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