No worries about your passwd getting changed, ensure you have a GRUB passwd.
--- On Fri, 3/26/10, Haggai Nyang <haggai.nyang@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Haggai Nyang <haggai.nyang@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] UNLOCKING PASSWORD IN ROOT DIRECTORY To: "Skunkworks Mailing List" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 11:29 AM
@David that assumes the user is already a member of the sudoers file... First result I got on google with a simple search, dunno if it will work for ubuntu, but now i'm afraid of giving a keyboard to anyone close to my fedora boxes! (shudder) http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-hack-root-password-in-linux/On the comments there are tips for ubuntu hacking as well, haven't tried them though...
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