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Re: dead lock

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2021-10-14 17:54 GMT+05:00, Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com>:
> 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 suppose that there is a solution, but I couldn't find it.
> Any idea?

My standard actions in such situations (unknown root password + no sudo rights):
A) boot from livecd, mount root partition into /mnt, chroot /mnt,
passwd, umount /mnt, reboot from hdd.
or
B) at boot add line to kernel parameters:
init=/bin/sh

after boot at prompt:

mount / -o remount,rw
passwd   # change root password
sync; sync
mount / -o remount,ro

and reboot (may be via reset button or power switch)

-- 
Stanislav

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dead lock Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2021-10-14 15:00 +0200
  Re: dead lock Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-14 15:20 +0200
    Re: dead lock Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugroups@gmail.com> - 2021-10-16 06:10 +0200
      Re: dead lock Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-16 15:40 +0200
        Re: dead lock Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugroups@gmail.com> - 2021-10-17 09:00 +0200
  Re: dead lock Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2021-10-14 15:40 +0200
    security of debian default sudoers file (was: dead lock) Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> - 2021-10-17 11:50 +0200
      Re: security of debian default sudoers file (was: dead lock) Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugroups@gmail.com> - 2021-10-17 12:20 +0200
  Re: dead lock Stanislav Vlasov <stanislav.v.v@gmail.com> - 2021-10-14 16:30 +0200

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