Can not remember root password

[Wollie]

This indicates something happens to your system which you have not yet disclosed to us.

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<username> is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported

Welcome to the forum! If you did that in a terminal in the live session ─ as opposed to in a chroot environment ─ then there’s nothing to fix. The live session runs off of a read-only medium. The root password for the live session is the same as that of the unprivileged account.

[SOLVED] Sudo run commands with no password

Ok, done. The screenshot made all the difference! This is what I have now: $ sudo -l Matching Defaults entries for spiros on home: env_reset Runas and Command-specific defaults for spiros: Defaults!/etc/ctdb/statd-callout !requiretty User spiros may run the following commands on home: (ALL) ALL (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/iptables (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/ip The (ALL) ALL was previously included by /etc/sudoers.d/10-installer. So, I moved the includedir at the top of /et…

Sudo suddenly stopped working!

Have you been copying .pacnew files over existing files? You may be able to salvage your system if you have working copies of /etc/group and /etc/passwd Verify the following files exist and has the desired content - please note the appended dash in the filename - it is a backup created by the system - created every time you change the files /etc/group- /etc/passwd- If those files has the expected content - especially verify if your username is found in the line of the wheel group - then si…