Best Vista Error EVAR, gaming, and software requests, and an Ubuntu gripe

[Erich Newell]

Ok...now that I got that bit out of my system. Onto the more list-pertinent
bits...

Re: LiveCD root user...the default user is a member of sudoers. Simply:
'sudo passwd root' and enter a password of your choice

Alternately, if you want to be uber hacker 1337ski...you could open the .iso
in your favorite ISO editing/mastering tool (e.g. ISO Master) and then edit
the /etc/shadow file. Look for the "root" password line and delete
everything between the second and third colon. Then save the file and use
your ISO editor to repackage the ISO. You can now burn your livecd and have
a nice, paswordless root user account.

If you do this however...I highly recommend editing the /etc/ssh/sshd_config
file to not allow root logon.

Share and enjoy.

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:56 PM, <storkus at storkus.com> wrote:

> I came across this while searching for the answer to the question
> following this, and IMMEDIATELY posted it here!  Feel free to forward it
> to /. if you have an account there.
>
>
> http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/king3vbo/best-vista-error-evar-toppled-by-new-error--58729.phtml
>
> Next up, the question: has anyone tried gaming on FreeBSD?  I've seen
> past stuff mainly about problems WRT native software liking ALSA over
> OSS, but I don't know if that's
> been solved or got worse.  What about WINE and its decendants?
>
> Finally, has anyone got a copy of FreeBSD 7 or Slackware 12.1?
>
> For those at the installfest last weekend, I STILL don't have a working
> install, and I worked on it all day.  ACPI on this laptop is turning out
> to be a MAJOR headache!
> One big weirdness (for me, anyway) is that the kernel on the install
> disks works fine but my compiled kernels all fail when they try to mount
> the root filesystem.
> As I'm writing this, I recall that, on modern Slackware anyway, they use
> modules and an initrd image, so maybe that's it.
>
> Oh, and that Ubuntu gripe: who the hell makes a live-CD/install disk
> where the root/superuser account is password protected?!?  And said
> password is nowhere to be found
> on the disk!  What gives?!?  Ubuntu is clearly too windozey for my
> taste.  Blech! :(
>
> Mike
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