Hi Davin,
Is this while booted into live Ubuntu session from your USB rescue
drive? Session system tweaks may not have permanence.
You probably want(ed) the install on your hard drive. Re-create the
partition if you deleted it (which wasn't necessary for re-installing
into it now).
Write your setup user password down, if that's what you forgot.
Setting a root password requires some simple commands, though much can
be done without this. If you do set a root password, write that down
too.
I can come help again this afternoon if you like.
Thank you CLUG members for sharing configuration guides.
Rik
On 2019-11-24 09:05, Davin Pearson wrote:
> How do I go about installing emacs25?
>
> I entered the following commands
> but it failed. Here is the console output:
>
> [email protected]~$ sudo apt-get install emacs25
> [sudo] password for www:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package emacs25
>
> Note that wifi is working in my web browser
> as it is able to reach http://www.google.com
>
> Another question for you is this:
>
> How do I go about mounting /media/www/WIndows
> in read-write mode rather than the default setting
> on read only mode.
>
> I tried the following command but got no joy:
>
> fsck /dev/sda2
>
> On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 at 19:57, Slosh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 04:51:28PM +1300, Helmut Walle wrote:
>>> So for recovering your root password stored in the system on the HD...
>>> usually recovering that
>>> password would be a lot of work if possible at all, because passwords are
>>> only stored encrypted
>>> these days. It is usually easier to just delete the password. To do that:
>>>
>>> 1. Boot a rescue system of some sort from a USB medium (or CD / DVD if
>>> that's easier).
>>> 2. Log in as root, or 'sudo su' if you are already logged in (see above).
>>> 3. Mount the partition with your system files somewhere (/mnt usually is
>>> already there and can
>>> be used).
>>> 4. Find the shadow password file where the encrypted passwords are stored
>>> (probably /etc/shadow
>>> - so if you have mounted your HD at /mnt , then it would be /mnt/etc/shadow
>>> 5. Make a backup copy of that file in the same folder, just in case.
>>> 6. Open the shadow file in a text editor, and find the line that begins
>>> with "root". The shadow
>>> file contains the passwords and other parameters for all user accounts, one
>>> account per line
>>> (details available via 'man 5 shadow'). The fields separator is a colon. So
>>> all the gibberish
>>> between the colon after "root" and the next colon is your encrypted root
>>> password...
>>> 7. Delete the entire encrypted root password.
>>> 8. Insert an asterisk '*' between the two colons following "root", where
>>> the encrypted password
>>> was before.
>>> 9. Save the file.
>>> 10. Reboot from HD. Your root password should now be void - so to log in as
>>> root, enter "root"
>>> at the username prompt, and then hit Enter at the password prompt.
>>
>> Another option is to add the string `rw init=/bin/bash` to the end of
>> the line starting with `linux` in GRUB. Then when the OS loads
>> you'll be dropped directly into a root shell and can type `passwd` to
>> change it to what you want.
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>
> Sincerely and kindest regards, Davin.
> Davin Pearson http://davin.50webs.com
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