Re: password
On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 03:10:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 07:56:56PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>> I understand that debian 11 does not establish a root password during
>> installation, regardless of what the installer says.
>
>This is not correct.
So much for online help.
>> To get a root
>> password, I need to add
>> rw init=/bin/bash
>> to the grub start up script or
>> ro init=/bin/bash
>> to end of the kernel line
>
>That's not correct either.
This process described above must be given in a dozen places online.
>
>During the Debian (NOT LIVE!!) installation, you will be prompted for
>the root password. You will also be told that you may leave this
>password empty, and that if you do so, the sudo package will be installed,
>and your initial user account will be added to the sudo group, granting
>unlimited sudo access.
>
>Therefore, in a Debian (NOT LIVE!!) installation, there are two
>possibilities:
>
>1) The root account has a password, and you can use this to login directly
> as root ON A TEXT CONSOLE (not necessarily in a GUI), or to switch to
> root with the su command.
I have installed this debian many times in trying to fix video
problems. Not once has an entered password worked. The process
described above using the grub edit did work once.
>2) Your initial user account -- the one you set up during installation --
> will be able to ascend to root privileges with the sudo command.
Does not work for me.
>In the second case, if you wish to give root a usable password, all you
>have to do is run:
>
>sudo passwd root
I get "user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be
reported." Getting entered in the sudoers file seems to require
having a root password already.
--
Noah Sombrero
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