On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:18:47 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > On 07/13/11 at 02:35pm, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:21:17 -0600, Lloyd Rice wrote: >> >> > I'm new at this. Sorry. But I think this is a real bug. >> > >> > Debian Release 6.0.2.1 >> > Architecture: amd64 >> > >> > I have done a number of installs with both CD and DVD images on two >> > different >> > machines. I have tried a number of different combinations of options >> > during these >> > installs. Obviously, I could not try all possible combinations. But >> > the common >> > pattern seems to be that if I request the "Graphical expert" install >> > and then >> > select the shadow password system, then in the installed system, the >> > root password cannot be authenticated. >> >> (...) >> >> Did you enable "sudo" by any chance? >> >> If yes, your root's password is your user's password. > > That's not true.. certainly, sudo can be configured (and is by default > in Debian) to prompt for the requestor's password and not root's > password. But the root password for login and su remains unchanged, and > those are the methods Lloyd specified he attempted to use after install.
I dunno how Debian sets this by default but usually, when you select to disallow the root account you are enforced to use your user's password to perform admin tasks. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.14.14.57...@gmail.com
