After spending a month trying other distro's, I searched "free linux
distributions" and found Trisquel, downloaded the 32=bit iso, burned it to a
DVD, and made a quasi-successful installation in next to to time at all.
However, after downloading & installing about 35 applications, authenticating
as I went along with what I thought was my username (george - not
Administrator or root) and the password Trisquel asked me to associate with
"george" at the beginning of the installation, and while I was configuring
HPLIP to communicate with my network printer, only then was I asked for a
root password - which I did not have - and the password associated with
"george" was of no use.
I searched here, found "Lost Password" and bit the bullet: I re-installed
Trisquel.
All went well until the installation finished and I eagerly entered "sudo cat
/etc/grub.d/01_PASSWORD" only to be met with:
echo set superuser=grub
echo password grub #####
I'm surprised to find in a linux distro, a five digit numerical password ...
I cannot find any place where ##### works, and when I look in User Accounts,
I'm the Administrator.
I am still using my "george" password ... what exactly do I have to do now ?
I suppose that if I change my user status from Administrator to "Standard"
(which is what I tried the first time around) I'll then be forced to use my
root password to authenticate further downloads/installations, but I'm going
to wait to hear from other users before I try to find out whether that
five-digit number is what I should actually be using.
