[Gllug] Knoppix questions

Mon Sep 30 02:23:11 UTC 2002

On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 22:46, Steve Cobrin wrote:
> On Friday 27 September 2002 11:04, Andrew Black \(li\) wrote:
> > A few questions
> >  - what is the root password
> 
> All the passwords are locked. The only way to get to root is to type "sudo su 
> -" [which happens to be the way I get to root on most machines I look after]. 
> or you could <ctrl><alt><f1> to get to non x console, or type "knoppix 2" at 
> boot prompt.

If you need to a "real" root password, then doing "sudo passwd" works,
(but of course the changes will be lost when you reboot).

Simon

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