Resetting Lost Root Password in Ubuntu when “single” fails.
Background Story (skip)
Quite a few times a year I head out to my best friend Eric’s place back in Ontario. We’ve known each other for the better part of our lives as we met in high school. One of the passions we share is the Linux operating system, although different ends of the spectrum. Eric is more into Ubuntu, and he runs it for his work and personal servers, as well as his desktop. I on the other hand prefer Red Hat based systems, working on servers running Red Hat or CentOS, and have extensively used Fedora as a workstation for my work (although my home PC is still Windows based), and most recently I did switch to Zorin Pro (Ubuntu derivative) and currently use Arch Linux for my workstation for professional use.…