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Re: Passwords



On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:02:03 +0100
steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> wrote:

> Le 17-01-2023, à 08:07:02 -0500, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
> 
>
> >
> >If you went in via a Live CD, and mounted the Debian root partition,
> >the next step is to chroot into the Debian root partition.  Then you
> >can run "passwd root" in the chroot shell.  Then exit from the shell,
> >and unmount the Debian partition.  
> 
> chroot can be tricky for newcommers…
> 

No harder than the easy first bit of an installation (i.e. language,
keyboard etc.)

About two or three minutes gets you to the point where you can select a
root drive and chroot into it, all the mounting details handled for you.

-- 
Joe


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