2009/4/11 Harry Rickards <hricka...@l33tmyst.com>: > > > On 11 Apr 2009, at 18:58, zhang zhengquan <zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear debian users, >> >> I used to use islanddancer as username to login to my sid laptop. and >> islanddancer is in sudoers file. >> today I changed it to zhengquan using >> >> sudo usermod -l zhengquan islanddancer >> >> I did nothing else. >> >> Now I can login using zhengquan but I was not able to su to root using >> the root password. >> also 'zhengquan' is not in sudoers file so now I can not edit >> /etc/sudoers to include zhengquan.
> Do you mean 'sudo su' is not working? If so just use 'su', and enter the I did su root.. > root password, not your password. If you don't know the root password try I know the root password but now it does not work after I did the usermod.. > pressing 'e' on the right GRUB entry, and adding 'single' to the end of the > line. This boots up Debian as root. Thanks I will try this. -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
