Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password
On 15/03/14 22:58, 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.
>
>
No root account? (Is that a joke?)
I'm always learning and I'm keen to know how that is achieved - it
sounds very unlikely....
Would the rescue console still work?
I suspect you mean "no root login to the GUI" - which still leaves
stopping the X Server with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and logging in as root to
the console - or Ctrl+Alt+F2 and logging in as root to the vconsole.
Kind regards
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