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Titel: root password failure
Verfasst am: 29.04.2017, 16:17 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 28. Sep 2011
Beiträge: 2
Wohnort: 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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Titel: root password failure
Verfasst am: 30.04.2017, 05:55 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 17. Dez 2003
Beiträge: 16790
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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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