1. Boot from a live CD
2. create a directory
3. mount your HDD into this directory
4. chroot to this directory
5. execute passwd into CLI
6. eject the CD and reboot
PS: You can't retreive it, but you can rewrite it this way
There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't
It's quite easy to just set the root password, then you can login as root.
Is that why. Huh. If that is all it takes, I cannot see that being a big deal, no.
I still don't like the idea of using Ubuntu for a web server though. Extraneous overhead IMHO when a base Debian install with some minor tweaks would also do the trick.
Dn't do this We have discussed it before, remember?
I do, although this server is not 'solely' my responsibility (my server was a dev server behind a NAT router -- I wouldn't do this on a live server).
I want to know what the advantages Ubuntu has over Debian setup with the introduction of a Administrator account...why not just super and normal users? And sudo/su into root if required?