Le 17-01-2023, à 07:19:04 -0500, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 09:36:03AM +0100, steve wrote:Easier would be to delete the second field in /etc/shadow for root, so there won't be anymore root password (it's empty). You can then create one with the 'passwd' command.If you can edit the /etc/shadow file, you're already root, which means you can simply run "passwd root" to set a new password. You will not be prompted for the old password, so there's no need to clear the old password hash preemptively.
You're right if you're editing the file in the OS, but not if you have accessed data from a live-cd, which was what I was thinking. Sorry.