On 07/13/11 at 08:32pm, Tom H wrote: > 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. :) I'm being literal. In no case is the root password actually modified. -- Liam
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