[OT] Hosed Xubuntu system

[Richard Gaskin]

Richmond Mathewson wrote:

 > On 11/28/16 9:25 pm, Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >> Anything noteworthy in ~/.bash_history, /var/log/auth.log, or
 >> /var/log/syslog?
 >>
 >> Are those files even remaining?
 >>
 > There seems to be no way to get at those files if they still remain
 > on the partition.

If it's a matter of permissions you can use:

    sudo su

...to become root (be careful while you're root, of course).

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