On 07/13/11 at 02:35pm, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:21:17 -0600, Lloyd Rice wrote: > > > I'm new at this. Sorry. But I think this is a real bug. > > > > Debian Release 6.0.2.1 > > Architecture: amd64 > > > > I have done a number of installs with both CD and DVD images on two > > different > > machines. I have tried a number of different combinations of options > > during these > > installs. Obviously, I could not try all possible combinations. But the > > common > > pattern seems to be that if I request the "Graphical expert" install and > > then > > select the shadow password system, then in the installed system, the > > root password cannot be authenticated. > > (...) > > Did you enable "sudo" by any chance? > > If yes, your root's password is your user's password.
That's not true.. certainly, sudo can be configured (and is by default in Debian) to prompt for the requestor's password and not root's password. But the root password for login and su remains unchanged, and those are the methods Lloyd specified he attempted to use after install. -- Liam
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