[olug] Ubuntu, cant su root

[Will Langford]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Charles.Bird <charles.bird at powerdnn.com>wrote:

> lmao, oh shit Will, that did it!
> *stores in brain*
> I remember the grub one from a couple years ago when i setup a server at my
> house while drinking adult beverages, next day i couldnt remember what the
> passwd was, that worked well.
> in this case, sudo bash was perfect.
>
> Thanks for the lesson!
>
> Charles
>

`sudo -i` as suggested above should also do the trick and is a more
appropriate solution probably.
At home on the mythbuntu box... on the rare occaision I need a root shell I
keep forgetting `su` to root is disabled and always infuriates me cause I
keep thinking I forgot the password hehehe.

In days long ago I had to single-user my ancient slackware 3.x installs
on occasion... so.. being one of the first things I had to learn, it's stuck
with me.  Always handy when breaking into someone else's box, too ;)

-Will