newbie: login with no password. Help!

Sat Dec 11 19:29:31 UTC 2004

At 6:58 PM +0000 12/11/04, Neil Woolford scribbled:
>At 18:22 11/12/04, you wrote:
>
>>How can you login as root when Ubuntu installs with an 
>>unknown/scrambled root password?
>>
>>...ROMeyn
>
>Easy if you have physical access to the machine.
>
>Start up and watch for the Grub loading message;  the instant this 
>appears press the Esc key
>which will bring up the Grub menu.  From this select the 'Recovery 
>mode'.  This will start you
>at a root console.
>

Ah.  Is there not a distinction between "logging in as root" and 
"having root access to a file system"?  Perhaps it's just me...

...ROMeyn
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