On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 15:11 +0000, Paul Sladen wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Colin Murphy wrote: > > I recently had a corrupt HD on my Dapper desktop system and had a prompt > > thrown at me for the 'root password' by the minimal rescue system > > The prompt only occurs if a root password *has been set*. Out of the box, > Ubuntu is configured to use 'sudo' and if you select '(recovery mode)' you > will get a superuser-prompt, no password prompt questions asked.
I have, in the past, set root passwords in Ubuntu, but I really don't recall setting one for this installation. Not being the greatest security minded person on the planet, I don't change passwords very often and the then root password would have been the same as my current Admin account password which, as I said, I had tried. BUT - the 'recovery' prompt I referred to is not the one that I would choose off the Grub menu, it is a login prompt that was thrown at me during my default login which failed. Are these different? -- Must go; places to be, people to do, stuff to, err, stuff. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
