Monday, 17 June 2013

Getting into the linux root - grub editing

As this page says root is the user name or account that by default has access to all commands and files on a Linux or other Unix-like operating system. It is also referred to as the root account, root user and the superuser. Getting into the linux root is a necessity when talking about privileges and let me show you how to get the easy access.

You shall need :-

  1. An Linux operating system -(Ubuntu ,Fedora or anything .. )

  2. Direct access to the system, ie you need to restart it alright.

  3. The Recovery mode enabled in the GRUB is not a necessity.


The steps :-

  1. So, the vector is the GRUB boot loader, we see just after booting on our system :-

  2. Here, select the first option , and press 'e' as it says to edit.(Ubuntu,with LINUX )