On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:02:03 +0100 steve <[email protected]> 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
