On 6/11/21 7:17 am, Thomas George wrote:
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
Try sudo passwd root And reset the root password to a known string -- Jeremy
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