Hallo Lennart, On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 at 03:08, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:36:07PM +1100, Hugh McMaster wrote: > > After using the graphical installer in a virtual machine, setting the > > root and standard user passwords, and finally restarting, the root > > password is not accepted, so the user cannot login as root or use sudo > > as a normal user. > > Can you use 'su -l' as a normal user to become root? > Can you switch to tty1 (left control+left alt+F1) and login as root there?
Both of these work correctly. What I was actually thinking of was an issue with `adduser <username> sudo`. It now requires a reboot instead of just logging out and in as a normal user. > Not being able to login to the GUI as root is expected. You can log in as the root user using Cinnamon by default.
