2021-10-14 17:54 GMT+05:00, Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenk...@gmail.com>: > hi > After a Debian install on my amd64 laptop, I'm faced to what looks like > a beautiful dead lock: > I wanted to set a root account, but that was refused because I'm not > in /etc/sudoers, and to put me in this file, I need root privilege! > I suppose that there is a solution, but I couldn't find it. > Any idea?
My standard actions in such situations (unknown root password + no sudo rights): A) boot from livecd, mount root partition into /mnt, chroot /mnt, passwd, umount /mnt, reboot from hdd. or B) at boot add line to kernel parameters: init=/bin/sh after boot at prompt: mount / -o remount,rw passwd # change root password sync; sync mount / -o remount,ro and reboot (may be via reset button or power switch) -- Stanislav
