Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password
On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 12:58 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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.
IOW the OP remembers the password for UID 1000, but not the name for UID
1000 :D.
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