That is a valid question. I worked on a system a while ago were some kind soul has changed the root name, although I'd never thought of it.
I tried a heap of different spellings for the password that I _knew_ was right before hard rebooting to runlevel 1, and discovering root was now called 'RootUser' complete with capitals.. Mutter mumble, great was to waste an hours or two though, pity I wasn't charging by the 6 minute slot.... :-). Cheers, Chris. On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 23:23, Nick Rout wrote: > Seems like a series of random tips for various things: > > http://reviewed.homelinux.org/ > > I liked this from the front page: > > "how do you find out the root user name? when i type su - it just asks > for the password"
