concepts wrote: > ar...@aries:~$ su - > Password: > su: Authentication failure > > Is there a password that I don't know about? Shouldn't be the same as the one > I use as 'user aries'? > > André. > >
There is no root password on Ubuntu. You need to reboot in single user mode if you wish to be root. The steps are here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecoveryMode Basicly, it's: 1)Reboot 2)Press ESC to see grub menu if it's hidden 3)Select (Recovery) 4)See r...@machine:~# prompt... you are now root with no X and limited services 5)Do what you have to do... 6)Reboot There is also a LiveCD recovery method: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCdRecovery I strongly advise again setting a root password in Ubuntu, unless you know what you are doing. But you can if you want to because it won't break anything. David Montminy _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
