Comer Duncan wrote: > However, today in the process of trying to spawn a root terminal (in > Accessories) and going through a cycle of trying to get authorized but > being prevented by repeated complaints that the system password I used was > not correct, I now find that I can not get logged in in single-user mode! > I have thus royally screwed up. So, how can I get the system password > changed to something new? Did you get added to the sudo group? If you are lucky then you did and you can use your own password instead of root. $ sudo passwd root $ su - # Worth a try. Remember that sudo asks for your password not root's password. Also you can use sudo to list what sudo actions are available to you. $ sudo -l Bob
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