The "missing" password!

[Niles Rogoff]

Martin -- Yes, that's why I suggested it.

Sajan -- No, it had several more options, and remount is not one of them.
Some pictures I just took
http://imgur.com/a/JnVY0



On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Martín Cigorraga <
martincigorraga at gmail.com> wrote:

> Niles: booting from a live Ubuntu will grant you unrestricted access over
> target storage device as long as it isn't encrypted.
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Niles Rogoff <nilesrogoff at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On my device it says `Enter root password for maintenance (or control+D
>> to exit)'. Also, according to the link that you sent, while yes the
>> partition is mounted automatically, it is mounted as read only, and must be
>> manually mounted from the command line.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Sajan Parikh <sajan at parikh.io> wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/30/2014 08:30 PM, Niles Rogoff wrote:
>>>
>>>> I believe you must enter the root password in order to boot into
>>>> recovery mode.
>>>>
>>>
>>> If RecoveryMode is (or similar to) single user mode for other
>>> distributions, you won't need any sort of password at all.  It'll give you
>>> an option to drop to a shell and that's it, you're root. It's how I've
>>> recovered (by changing) the root password on many boxes for clients.
>>>
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