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Re: Question about login with user root



On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:05:43AM +0100, José Vera López wrote:
>    Hello. 
>    I have installed Debian 7.8 in a virtual machine. I have no problem to log
>    in with my user, but I can not log with user root (in fact I could not
>    sign even once with root). I'm sure I'm typing correctly the password. The
>    message is: "Fallo de autentificación" (Autentification failure). 

Did you assign a password to root when you installed debian? The
installer should have given you the option to. If you did, then you can
run "su -" at a prompt and supply root's password. If you did NOT, then
you need to run "sudo -i" and supply YOUR password to gain root access.

>    Thanks in advance for your help. 
>    José Vera López

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