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Post subject: root password failure
 Posted: Apr 29, 2017 - 04:17 PM
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Joined: Sep 28, 2011
Posts: 2
Location: Kassel, Germany
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| hello everybody: I am using (i think) Kanotix Dragonfire it 2014-kde. I recently tried to update iceweasel to firefoxbut realised that I must have root privileges in order to do so. To my horror my password does not work: it is not that I have forgotten it , I wrote it down as soon as I first used it so no case sensitive mistakes should occur.Is there any way that I can retrieve it or must I reload Kanotix on my computer? |
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Post subject: root password failure
Posted: Apr 30, 2017 - 05:55 AM
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Joined: Dec 17, 2003
Posts: 16792
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| At startup you can enter the grub edit mode and add "init=/bin/sh rw" at the end of the linux line, remove "splash". The you can use "passwd" to change your root pw. "reboot" then. |
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