Re: Root passwd not accepted
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:20 PM, William Hopkins <we.hopkins@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
And I agree completely, for a literal perspective. It's unset in the
particular case that I referred to, just like OS X and Ubuntu.
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