Re: su won't work from a debian live USB install

[Jim Ohlstein <jim@mailman-hosting.com>]

Hello,

On 06/25/2017 07:20 PM, daniel theobald wrote:
> I installed the Debian 9 from a Debian live amd64 image I downloaded 
> today.  Everything works great, but I can't su to apt-get anything new.
>
> theo@debian:~$ su
> Password:
> su: Authentication failure
>
> I have reinstalled twice, being super careful to get the password right, 
> etc.  But it simply doesn't seem to work on this version.  Anyone else 
> seeing this problem?

Assuming sudo is working properly, try resetting the root password:

$ sudo passwd root

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