Re: dead lock

2021-10-16 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 17/10/21 00:33, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 03:00:28PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 15/10/21 00:14, Greg Wooledge wrote: If for some reason you've forgotten the root password that you used during installation, or you've lost your membership in the sudo group, then yo

Re: dead lock

2021-10-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 03:00:28PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > On 15/10/21 00:14, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > If for some reason you've forgotten the root password that you used > > during installation, or you've lost your membership in the sudo group, > > then you can add "init=/bin/bash" to

Re: dead lock

2021-10-15 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 15/10/21 00:14, Greg Wooledge wrote: If for some reason you've forgotten the root password that you used during installation, or you've lost your membership in the sudo group, then you can add "init=/bin/bash" to the kernel parameters in GRUB, re-mount the root file system read/write, run th

Re: dead lock

2021-10-14 Thread Stanislav Vlasov
2021-10-14 17:54 GMT+05:00, Pierre Frenkiel : > hi > After a Debian install on my amd64 laptop, I'm faced to what looks like > a beautiful dead lock: > I wanted to set a root account, but that was refused because I'm not > in /etc/sudoers, and to put me in this file, I need root privilege! > I sup

Re: dead lock

2021-10-14 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 10/14/21 5:54 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi After  a Debian install on my amd64 laptop, I'm faced to what looks like a beautiful dead lock: I wanted to set a root account, but that was refused because I'm not in /etc/sudoers, and to put me in this file, I need root privilege! providing some

Re: dead lock

2021-10-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 02:54:26PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > After a Debian install on my amd64 laptop, I'm faced to what looks like > a beautiful dead lock: > I wanted to set a root account, but that was refused because I'm not > in /etc/sudoers, and to put me in this file, I need root priv