[Novalug] Re: [Ma-linux] Getting root access on a Ubuntu Live Cd (ver 5.0.4)

[Matt Good]

On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 12:29 -0800, Ken Firestone wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Jay Hart wrote:
> 
>    Ok,
> 
>    Here is my problem (which I've tried googling to find workaround).
> 
>    I want to see what is on all my old hard drives prior to running DBAN on them.
>    Thought I would boot a live CD and mount drives and see what they look like
>    from a data perspective.
> 
>    So, I boot PC using Ubuntu 5.0.4 Liv CD, which boots me into user unbuntu with
>    ID of 1000+. But now I can't su to root, so I can mount drive and see data.
> 
>    I've tried googling to see how I can get around this, but no luck.
> 
>    I'm hoping someone can help me overcome this.
> 
>    TIA,
> 
> I just had to do this to repair a windoze s___box.
> 
> I did sudo passwd root and assigned a password to the root account.
> Then su worked. I get tired of typing sudo before everything when I
> have to do alot of commands. And in the live cd, the root password is
> on the ramdisk, so it goes poof when you shut down.

You don't need to assign a root password.   Just run "sudo su" if you
want to su to root instead of using sudo before every command.

-- Matt Good