Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

[emetib <chadbrabec@gmail.com>]

gene i can understand your pain.  one of the reasons that i don't necessarily like sudo systems.

one of the first things that i do when i have a sudo system, ubuntu, lmde, raspbian, is to 'sudo su' and then 'passwd' to actually set a root password.

i have found that this has remedied the situation that you have described here.  with doing the above you wouldn't have to mount the sd somewhere else, you just make a new password for root.

i hope that this helps some for future reference.

take care
em