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Re: How to gain control over the system?



Hi Jimmy,
Well, I did not follow your suggestion exactly, but as people has said, the root account is already and always there, even it has not been assigned a password. So, against my real whish, not to activate the root account, I gave the command sudo passwd root, and entered a password. And now I suppose I have burned my ships and have no way back...

But! Nothing has changed. I can still not enter program icons to the panel, and not define keyboard shortcuts. If I sort the icons on the desktop they still, after a cold start, come back in a completely other order, dispite I had marked "Keep ajusted" (right click on desktop).

So...?
/Kaj

Den 2017-07-09 kl. 22:28, skrev Jimmy Johnson:
On 07/08/2017 02:57 PM, Kaj Persson wrote:
Hi all,

So can someone help me get the command back, or do I have to make a new
reinstall, hoping for better luck. Possibly setting a password on the
Admin, hence activating that account, which I would prefer not having to.

Thank you in advance
Kaj

Hi,

Start the Stretch install cd/dvd in repair mode and when you get to where you can start a shell in the install at the prompt type:# passwd root and then enter the new root passwd and then reboot.


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