On 17 May 2014 11:28, Gayle Lee Fairless <fairl...@hiwaay.net> wrote: > I downloaded some .iso's for Debian Wheezy live CD/DVD's > and we could not find the superuser access since we were looking at them at > night class. > > This is for a Linux system administration class. Please copy the > Professor because he is not on the list.
The Debian Wheezy Live environment is built with root login disabled, and with sudo configured for the live user. So any command can be run as root by prepending "sudo", and a root password is not required. Here is an actual tested example that should work the same for you: $ ls -al /root ls: cannot open directory /root: Permission denied $ sudo ls -al /root total 2 drwx------ 2 root root 46 Apr 26 06:34 . drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 220 May 17 19:30 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 570 Jan 31 2010 .bashrc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140 Nov 19 2007 .profile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAMPXz=qvJAX52BkoL-_Y73=zN8R8iui-C5Gi2=v_2ouyg-v...@mail.gmail.com
