Boot into the installer, and then mount your root partition to /mnt. Then chroot in and change the password like so: $ chroot /mnt /bin/bash $ passwd
The 'passwd' command will automatically prompt to change the password of the user you are logged as. In this case that will be root. I don't think you need any of the other bind mounts for this to work, just a simple chroot. After changing your password, $ exit $ umount /mnt $ reboot On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 3:40 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > > The installation finished, but there was some confusion during the step > where I created a password for root. It never accepted my second entry > of the password. Unfortunately, the keyboard I'm using is not one that > lends itself to touch typing, and after the last attempt I must have hit > something that it took, and it told me the installation was finished. > After removing the install USB stick and rebooting I'm asked to log in. > I try to log in as root, but it doesn't like the password I thought I > put in. > > So, unless there's some way to do the password over, I'll need to do the > install over. Not a big deal, but an annoyance. > > Recommendations? > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
