What's the default username and password for an Ubuntu Live CD?

Question

What's the username and password for an Ubuntu Live CD image?

I ask because I've recently copied the contents of an Ubuntu based live ISO (easypeasy, the ldistro for nwtbooks) onto a hard disk drive, but the Squashfs file system is corrupt, most likely because I copied it live. :) So it's not autologging in. Is there a username/password for this?

Update: I tried username Ubuntu and a blank password, and it didn't work.

Solution 1

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.

Solution 2

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 3

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:

1. Boot from a live CD, and start a terminal session.
2. Mount your hard drive partition somewhere, like /mnt (i.e. mount /dev/hda1 /mnt)
3. chroot /mnt
4. adduser username
5. Reboot

Comments

[binki]

Did you try lowercase ubuntu with no password?

[T.Todua]

password could be: reverse

[Araejay]

'ubuntu' with blank password didn't work. I did a dd of the /dev/sdc (the SD card with the live 'CD' image) to /dev/sda (the harddrive). I think....

[Javier Mr]

Also mention that other flavors may have they own username, for example in Kubuntu 15.04 the user name is 'kubuntu'.

[swdev]

Confirm works with ubuntu empty password in Xubuntu 16.04 livecd