[mdlug] su Password problem

[gib at juno.com]

ubuntu 6.06 allows you to boot into a recovery version off of the (is it grub?) menu. With that you get to the shell and can reset the root password with a known value:

passwd root

Then the passwd command will prompt you for the new password (I think twice). 

You can then reboot into normal mode and try again. 

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Michael <newmaniese at gmail.com>
To: "MDLUG's Main discussion list" <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Subject: Re: [mdlug] su Password problem
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:55:21 -0400

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Drew <drew4096 at gmail.com> wrote:

> At 02:17 PM 6/4/09, Michael wrote:
>
> >Are you sure you are entering the right password. `su root` expects the
> >password for root. If you have sudo permissions for yast and the other
> >commands, you are entering your own password. Try `sudo su root` and see
> if
> >that works for you.
>
> Just did, and it made me root *without* asking for a password. Of
> course, I had put
> myself in wheel and gave wheel NOPASSWD: ALL. So it's good for a workaround
> I guess.
>
> Still I'd like to find out what screwed up the normal operation of su
> before it screws
> up something else.
>