root psswrd

[gosselcra]

and yes it does

[Jerunk]

Ask your friend?

[gruntbuggly]

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:

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

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

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

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

[user unknown]

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

mcedit /etc/shadow

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