What's the default username and password for an Ubuntu Live CD?
Solution 1:
Try 'ubuntu' with an empty password. If that doesn't work, you're probably best recopying the squashfs.
Note that squashfs is readonly, I assume you mean you copied the unionfs that lies on top of the squashfs and the tmpfs?
Solution 2:
If the username "ubuntu" with an empty password doesn't work, you may be able to add a new user to the system as follows:
- Boot from a live CD, and start a terminal session.
- Mount your hard drive partition somewhere, like
/mnt
(i.e.mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
) chroot /mnt
adduser username
- Reboot
Solution 3:
I'm not sure what the answer is, but I've solved this another way, so it's not a problem for me anymore. I discovered recently that it's possible to disable the password for an account. You can do this to force ssh key logins. I suspect that's what's going on here.