On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:20 PM, William Hopkins <we.hopk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/13/11 at 08:32pm, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:18 PM, William Hopkins <we.hopk...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > 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. >> >> If the OP chose not to "allow login as root", sudo'll have been >> configured as you describe and becoming root with "sudo -i" or "sudo >> -s" will be done with the user's password so it's a pseudo root >> password. :) > > I'm being literal. In no case is the root password actually modified.
And I agree completely, for a literal perspective. It's unset in the particular case that I referred to, just like OS X and Ubuntu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sx1u4x8qry+5dwkvaobhrdn9kcnotq2wa3_d3j2aud...@mail.gmail.com
