Re: Debian-Live 7.6.0 usb username & password?

[Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>]

On 11/07/2014 01:06 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> 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


Auto login..Have you ever thought about using a USB pen drive formatted 
to fat32 with a boot flag and unetbootin ?
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Jimmy Johnson

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