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Re: Debian-Live 7.6.0 usb username & password?



On Thursday 06 November 2014 23:39:06 Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> On 11/06/2014 03:13 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 November 2014 22:19:17 Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> >> On 11/06/2014 11:15 AM, me@raseone.com wrote:
> >>> and I am unable ****to log in to the default user**** or root account.
> >>
> >> There is not any root password. You can switch to root with sudo -i or
> >> set a password for root with sudo passwd.
> >
> > My stars.  From where is (s)he to switch to root?
>
> Lisi the OP has not said what they are trying to do, only that they want
> root from a Debian-live-install-cd.
>
> A live cd is good to have on hand when you want to repair a borked
> system when you have no other system to boot too.

Quite.  And it may have been an x/y question.  But the question was how to get 
in from the log-in screen.  I must download and burn a live Debian CD in 
order to find out!!

Lisi


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