unkown root password and mkdir problem.
when installing debian I entered eight digits as the root password. The
instillation completed successfully. Later I tried to become root but
the eight digits didn't work and many permutations also didn't work.
I have used sudo successfully with many commands including mkdir but
sudo tar fails to uncompress files because it cannot make the necessary
directories. That is sudo tar runs but must use mkdir which fails.
I have found mkdir in /usr/bin and changed the ownership to root:tom and
given it rwx permissions but this does not solve the problem.
If there are no suggested solutions to this email tomorrow I will backup
all my files to external drive and reinstall bullseye
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