[NTLUG:Discuss] New to Linux and seeking assistance

[joe b]

Get out your ISO for ubuntu and load it up.  Search for the standard ubuntu
install disk user and password on the internet.  Bring up a terminal
session, never mind forget all that:
https://itsfoss.com/how-to-hack-ubuntu-password/
much easier.

On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 9:20 AM Kevin E. Ivey <ik04 at isot.com> wrote:

> On 2019/03/24 21:06, James Good wrote:
> > Greetings and thank you for allowing me to join.
> >
> > As a way of introduction, my name is James Good.  My amateur radio
> > call sign is KD5VXH.  I live in the Northwest corner of Tarrant
> > County, the Parker County/Tarrant County line is less than a mile from
> > my house.
> >
> > My problem:  The computer that I use had been running Windows 10, with
> > all of its constant updates/upgrades.  Almost every day I would find
> > at least one, sometimes more, updates/upgrades had been made to the
> > operating system and somewhat related changes had been made to other
> > parts of other programs on the computer.  Those changes would need to
> > be corrected if I wanted those other programs to work.  Those 'other
> > programs' were all amateur radio related and used for digital mode
> > operations on both HF and VHF/UHF.  The updates/upgrades from
> > Microsoft became so frequent and so frustrating that last week I
> > located a disk that I had burned with an iso of Ubuntu 18.04.1.
> > Thursday was the day I made the change after testing Ubuntu without
> > installing it.  All seemed to work just fine.  And it works better
> > than it ever did with Windows (especially any version after Xp).  I
> > got the install disk to install Ubuntu to the computer (of course, all
> > of the Windows files, programs, and data that had been enjoyed are now
> > history). Over the past two or three days, I have been trying to learn
> > how this new (to me) operating system really works.  If the install
> > disk asked or prompted for a 'user password' during the install
> > process, I don't remember seeing it.  And now, any time I try to add
> > anything new using the Terminal application, I am asked for my
> > password.  As stated, I don't remember seeing a prompt to enter a
> > password during the install process.  Now, not knowing what that
> > password might be (if one was set) it appears that there is very
> > little I would be able to actually do other than a complete
> > re-install.
> >
> > Is there any way to view the passwords that might be on the computer?
> > And how could I change any password already set if I can't get into
> > the 'root' directory to make the change?
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> >
> > James Good KD5VXH
>
>
> Howdy James!
>
> I am an amateur radio operator (K4IVE) and I use all the fldigi
> applications on Linux for most of my digital mode ops.  I do not use
> Ubuntu.
>
> Ubuntu uses a non-privileged user and requires the user to use the
> "sudo" command to make root user inputs.  Other Linux distributions
> allow direct root user access to the system.
>
> There is a control panel application for viewing and modifying user
> attributes.  If you can't change (add) your password there and the
> command line passwd command won't do it, then you will need to ask
> Ubuntu users how to get where you want to be...
>
> Since I don't use Ubuntu, I can't help you beyond that, but you will
> quickly learn that the Linux community can get you an answer in seconds
> if you ask on the supporting forums of here on the user groups mail
> list...
>
> Try shopping around with a few different Linux distributions and check
> out how they differ.  Debian has lots of ham radio apps in its
> repositories that other distros don't have.
>
> Someone here on the mail list will have an answer for your password
> question, so stick around!
>
> 73,
>
> Kevin
> K4IVE
>
>
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