Jason,
Can not say exactly how I ran into this issuefollowing your tutorial but
I did and it was the second time it happened to me. The first
configuring a WeeWX pi. This discussion started when Chris appeared to
have the same issue on 2/16 and was asking how to fix the pi boot refusal.
I was trying to follow a couple of Xastir help files, not really keeping
track until I rebooted and could not log in. The light went off and I
knew what I did. This time I had the root password set up and could fix
the issue.
My input would be to avoid sudo su in tutorials where newbies, like me,
may 'shoot' themselves, unknowingly. I believe you can accomplish the
same commands with sudo as you would without it after the sudo su.
No harm, no foul.... we are all just amateurs trying to have fun.
Pleasure communicating with you..
Any suggestions on how to improve the Xastir mapping?
73
Den
On 2/16/2017 12:20 PM, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
I just did a quick read of http://tnc-x.com/TNCPi.pdf and while there is an
apparently unneeded invocation of startx, there were no instructions to do it
as root nor did I see prior instructions that would have left you in a root
shell. Maybe I read too quickly or there are some out of date instructions
floating around.
I forgot instructions on how to change the root password after recommending
everyone should - sorry about that.
To change the root password:
pi$ sudo passwd root
New password for root:
Retype new password:
Root can override anyone's password without knowing the old one. You can change
the pi user's password the same way, or by the usual unprivileged method:
pi$ passwd
Old password:
New password:
Repeat new password:
-Jason
kg4wsv
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