On 10/25/2011 09:24 AM, Hari Kurup wrote:
On 24 October 2011 08:48, John Muyimba <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
2. I did a boot recovery and was able to change the root passwd. I
also succeeded at logging in as root at boot level but later on
failed while using the GUI.
what do you mean by "boot level" ?
PS: Please reply to the list.
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Hari
At the grub menu, i selected the following options;
> Ubuntu, with linux 2.6.32-24-generic (Recovery mode)
> root (drop to root shell prompt)
> give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue)
I used jmuyimba as passwd
.. and i got "root@jmuyimba: #"
> Resumed (Resume normal boot)
i then tried the following
1. jmuyimba login: root
passwd: (accepts anything)
2. jmuyimba login: user
passwd: (accepts anything)
3. jmuyimba login: m4duser
passwd: (accepts anything)
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John Muyimba
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