Re: password

[Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st>]

On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 03:10:01 +0200, Charles Curley
<charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 19:56:56 -0400
>Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st> wrote:
>
>> I understand that debian 11 does not establish a root password during
>> installation, regardless of what the installer says.  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
>
>Actually, no, you don't.
>
>If you are preseeding, set that up in your preseed file. Something like:
>
># Root password, either in clear text
># d-i passwd/root-password password r00tme
># d-i passwd/root-password-again password r00tme
># or encrypted using a crypt(3)  hash.
>#d-i passwd/root-password-crypted password [crypt(3) hash]
># d-i passwd/root-password-crypted password $1$0jG8V.wJ$N6Z/DnaCW0TsDCWj0hspi0
>d-i passwd/root-password-crypted password $6$SMEblah,blah,blahfZRMXT061
>
>To generate hashes for the encrypted password option:
>
>!!! The installation manual recommends using sha512 or sha256 for stronger encryption, so use:
>
>printf "r00tme" | xargs mkpasswd -m sha-512
>
>
>
>Otherwise, once you have installed, for temporary access to root use
>sudo -i. Then change the password with passwd.

I guess the next step is to reinstall debian without specifying a root
password, so I can use sudo to establish one.  After that, perhaps I
can log in as root.

>
>Or, as Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> suggests, do it manually during
>installation.
>> 
>> Either way I get an error message saying that the ioctl is not
>> appropriate for the shell.  How can I fix that?
-- 
Noah Sombrero