root psswrd

and yes it does

Ask your friend?

If you are concerned that your friend's CD is modified in some way, then buy or burn your own CD. It's cheap and perfectly legal.

If this sort of thing is happening:

Code:

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$ touch /root/whatever
touch: cannot touch `/root/whatever': Permission denied

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Then you need to first become root by using the su command:

Code:

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$ su
# touch /root/whatever
# ls -l /root/whatever
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root            0 Aug 19 14:30 /root/whatever

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Finally, if you have something to add to one of your previous posts then use the Edit button. This reduces clutter.

boot your linux with an additional 's'.
This will give you a loginless shell in single-super-usermode.
There you can modify /etc/shadow

Code:

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mcedit /etc/shadow

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remove the root-line and create a new password as mentioned above.