Well, simple solution would be to disable the countdown for the grub menu, but woe unto you if you forget the root passwd! Edit the "timeout" line in /boot/grub/menu.lst Set it to 0 and the menu will not be shown. On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Haggai Nyang <haggai.nyang@gmail.com>wrote:
@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-linu...
On the comments there are tips for ubuntu hacking as well, haven't tried them though...
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Alvin Jason Ochieng <ajochola@gmail.com>wrote:
UBUNTU
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Steve Muchai <smuchai@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Alvin Jason Ochieng <ajochola@gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone with any Idea for unlocking this ? I have a pal with a netbook
running what?
BR, S
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