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-linux/

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

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>> Anyone with any Idea for unlocking this ? I have a pal with a netbook
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