[Discuss] Ubuntu 6.06 release party in Victoria

[Chris Mueller]

You can always boot from CD, mount the root partition, chroot in and run 
passwd. But You'd have to have physical access to do that ;)

-Chris

Deryk Barker wrote:
> GEORGE FARRIS wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: dbarker at turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca
>> Date: Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:20 am
>> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Ubuntu 6.06 release party in Victoria
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Thus spake Yves Bajard (netcfs at shaw.ca):
>>> ....
>>>   
>>>> Installing Ubunto was an easy task, except that an no point in the
>>>> process did the installation DVD ask me to state my /root password.
>>>>     
>>> Becase ubuntu doesn't use a root password, it uses sudo instead.
>>>
>>> So any time a user wants to do a privileged function (s)he types in
>>> the regular user password.
>>>
>>> Which works nicely *unless and until* you accidentally delete yourself
>>> from the admin group.
>>>
>>> After which you are hooped...:-)
>>>   
>>
>> No because you can set the root password if you want to.
>>
>> sudo bash
>> passwd
>>
>> done
>>  
>>
> Yes, because *only* userids which are members of the admin group can 
> run sudo at all. If you accidentally remove yourself from admin then 
> you can't run suo...period.
>
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