[Cialug] Buster upgrade problem

kristau kristau at gmail.com
Thu Nov 9 01:20:50 UTC 2023


You had it mounted under another system. You should be able to unlock root
from there.

On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 5:35 PM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Nov 2023, kristau wrote:
>
> > Try unlocking the root account? You may need to use chroot and passwd
> -uroot or try editing the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files?
> >
> Would love to, .. but pretty hard without a prompt.
>
>         TFTR!
>
>         Lee
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