Re: Root passwd not accepted
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:18 PM, William Hopkins <we.hopkins@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/13/11 at 02:35pm, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:21:17 -0600, Lloyd Rice wrote:
>>
>> > I'm new at this. Sorry. But I think this is a real bug.
>> >
>> > Debian Release 6.0.2.1
>> > Architecture: amd64
>> >
>> > I have done a number of installs with both CD and DVD images on two
>> > different
>> > machines. I have tried a number of different combinations of options
>> > during these
>> > installs. Obviously, I could not try all possible combinations. But the
>> > common
>> > pattern seems to be that if I request the "Graphical expert" install and
>> > then
>> > select the shadow password system, then in the installed system, the
>> > root password cannot be authenticated.
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> Did you enable "sudo" by any chance?
>>
>> If yes, your root's password is your user's password.
>
> That's not true.. certainly, sudo can be configured (and is by default in
> Debian) to prompt for the requestor's password and not root's password. But the
> root password for login and su remains unchanged, and those are the methods
> Lloyd specified he attempted to use after install.
If the OP chose not to "allow login as root", sudo'll have been
configured as you describe and becoming root with "sudo -i" or "sudo
-s" will be done with the user's password so it's a pseudo root
password. :)
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