sean finney on 14 Sep 2005 07:19:54 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] sudo broken in ubuntu 

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:02:18PM -0500, Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> Any ideas, anyone? Note that because ubuntu has no root account
> configured and I didn't set one up, there is effectively no root on this
> machine without sudo. Nor can I mount the drive and chroot into it from
> my debian because of "unsupported features" in ubuntu's ext3. 

boot with kernel option init=/bin/sh

you'll have to mount/remount/unmount everything yourself, but it will
give you root, regardless of whatever wacky stuff ubuntu is doing.


	sean

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