On Thursday 06 November 2014 23:39:06 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 11/06/2014 03:13 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 06 November 2014 22:19:17 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > >> On 11/06/2014 11:15 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >>> and I am unable ****to log in to the default user**** or root account. > >> > >> There is not any root password. You can switch to root with sudo -i or > >> set a password for root with sudo passwd. > > > > My stars. From where is (s)he to switch to root? > > Lisi the OP has not said what they are trying to do, only that they want > root from a Debian-live-install-cd. > > A live cd is good to have on hand when you want to repair a borked > system when you have no other system to boot too.
Quite. And it may have been an x/y question. But the question was how to get in from the log-in screen. I must download and burn a live Debian CD in order to find out!! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
