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Re: Authentication failed after su-



Dearie

> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 7:13 AM
> From: "Dan Ritter" <dsr@randomstring.org>
> To: "Stella Ashburne" <rewefie@gmx.com>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Authentication failed after su-
>
> >
> > In a terminal, I typed:
> >
> > username@hostname:~$ su -l -c "wpa_passphrase JupiterRising 1234567890 > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf"
> > Password:
> > su: Authentication failure
>
> That means that you failed to give the root password.
>
I disabled the root password during the process of installing Debian 11.

What should I do to resolve the issue?

Best regards.

Stella


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