mkl80, have you tried with "grub" username?

Lcerf, did Trisquel 7 propose some default password for this funny GRUB
behaviour?


El 17/10/19 a les 2:31, [email protected] ha escrit:
> No, they are not.  They the GRUB user (certainly "grub") and password...
> that you have certainly never known.  Up to version 7, Trisquel had that
> password, which created far more problems (additional difficulty to
> recover a broken system) than it solved (basically none unless we are
> talking about a kiosk computer).  Trisquel 8 finally abandoned that GRUB
> password.  However, it must be still present on Trisquel 8 systems that
> were updated from Trisquel 7 (and whose /etc/default/grub has never been
> modified to get rid of the password).
> 
> Anyway, as chaosmonk directly replied, mounting the filesystem
> containing the desired files from a Live system is certainly the easiest
> solution.  That is, assuming the partition is not encrypted (in which
> case, there would be no solution but to remember/brute-force the
> password: encryption works!).

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