Nice way to hack Ubuntu: use Ubuntu Live CD

Thanks to a nice article from HowToGeek.com, you now have a step by step tutorial of how to hack a Ubuntu install via a password reset ;)

Recap:

• Boot from LiveCD or USB pen drive
• Select “Try Ubuntu w/out any change to your computer”
• Do a “sudo fdisk –l” to find your devices and their names
• Make a directory to mount your drive “sudo mkdir /media/sda1”
• Mount the drive: “sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1”
• Use chroot: “sudo chroot /media/sda1”
• change the password using the “passwd” command

Note of course, that there are other ways of doing this, especially when you are using some of the security related distros