Re: Debian 10.2 LinuxCenter Peterburg
Hallo Lennart,
On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 at 03:08, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:36:07PM +1100, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> > After using the graphical installer in a virtual machine, setting the
> > root and standard user passwords, and finally restarting, the root
> > password is not accepted, so the user cannot login as root or use sudo
> > as a normal user.
>
> Can you use 'su -l' as a normal user to become root?
> Can you switch to tty1 (left control+left alt+F1) and login as root there?
Both of these work correctly. What I was actually thinking of was an
issue with `adduser <username> sudo`. It now requires a reboot instead
of just logging out and in as a normal user.
> Not being able to login to the GUI as root is expected.
You can log in as the root user using Cinnamon by default.
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