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You may want to prevent changes from being made on your perfectly setup Ubuntu computer, but locking down user accounts gives annoying error messages and prevents temporary changes. With Gofris, you can accomplish this without complicated hard drive imaging. Locked-Down Changes It takes time to get the perfect installation and setup of your computer, especially [...]

How to hack Ubuntu root

Posted: April 9, 2011 in Linux, Tips and Tricks

1. Login to your user 2. Open terminal 3. Type “sudo passwd root” 4. Type your password 5. Type new password for root 6. Retype new password for root 7. Close terminal 8. Logout from your user 9. In the GDM click “other” 10. Type user “root” 11. Type root password 12. Successful