(Solved) Re: Live CD/DVD's Debian Wheezy

[Gayle Lee Fairless <fairless@hiwaay.net>]

Thanks!  That did it!

I did sudo su at a terminal prompt and achieved the same result.

Sincerely,
(Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless
fairless@ieee.org


On Sat, 17 May 2014, David wrote:

> On 17 May 2014 11:28, Gayle Lee Fairless <fairless@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> >         I downloaded some .iso's for Debian Wheezy live CD/DVD's
> > and we could not find the superuser access since we were looking at them at
> > night class.
> >
> >         This is for a Linux system administration class.  Please copy the
> > Professor because he is not on the list.
>
> The Debian Wheezy Live environment is built with root login disabled,
> and with sudo configured for the live user.
>
> So any command can be run as root by prepending "sudo", and a
> root password is not required. Here is an actual tested example that
> should work the same for you:
>
> $ ls -al /root
> ls: cannot open directory /root: Permission denied
> $ sudo ls -al /root
> total 2
> drwx------  2 root root  46 Apr 26 06:34 .
> drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 220 May 17 19:30 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 570 Jan 31  2010 .bashrc
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 140 Nov 19  2007 .profile