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