- Reboot
- hold SHIFT
- select your inage on Grub menu
- press "e" to edit
- in the line starting with "linux" add int=/bin/bash to the very end
- ctrl+x to reboot
- your system will boot to passwordless root shell
- mount -o remount,rw / (make your partition writable)
- some people do: chmod 640 /etc/shadow file other just copy: cp /etc/shadow- /etc/shadow to eliminate it from th game
- analyze what you have by: less /etc/passwd
- determine what needs to be changed by: passwd USER
Scenario:
- Ubuntu server installed as a virtual machine and connected via bridged network adapter to a network
- pinging and services are accessible from Windows machines only by IP address, no name resolving, no DNS server on duty, just NetBIOS names
- can't ping Windows hosts from Ubuntu by their host names either
Resolution:
- on Ubuntu server: sudo apt-get install samba (then you can ping and access services on Ubuntu from Windows hosts by a hostname)
- to be able to ping Widows hosts from Ubuntu you need t
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