[olug] Ubuntu, cant su root

[Will Langford]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Charles.Bird <charles.bird at powerdnn.com>wrote:

> I installed the latest ubuntu server for a client realllllly late last
> night, and the passwd for root is not working!
> *bites keyboard*
>
> and i screwed or what? anything i can do? I do know that i defined the
> passwd for root, and I documented it at the time as well.
>

boot single user mode (kernel param: init=/bin/sh in lilo/grub/whatever)
 and passwd it to something you know ?