On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 03:10:01 +0200, Charles Curley <charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 19:56:56 -0400 >Noah Sombrero <fed...@fea.st> wrote: > >> I understand that debian 11 does not establish a root password during >> installation, regardless of what the installer says. To get a root >> password, I need to add >> rw init=/bin/bash >> to the grub start up script or >> ro init=/bin/bash >> to end of the kernel line > >Actually, no, you don't. > >If you are preseeding, set that up in your preseed file. Something like: > ># Root password, either in clear text ># d-i passwd/root-password password r00tme ># d-i passwd/root-password-again password r00tme ># or encrypted using a crypt(3) hash. >#d-i passwd/root-password-crypted password [crypt(3) hash] ># d-i passwd/root-password-crypted password $1$0jG8V.wJ$N6Z/DnaCW0TsDCWj0hspi0 >d-i passwd/root-password-crypted password $6$SMEblah,blah,blahfZRMXT061 > >To generate hashes for the encrypted password option: > >!!! The installation manual recommends using sha512 or sha256 for stronger >encryption, so use: > >printf "r00tme" | xargs mkpasswd -m sha-512 > > > >Otherwise, once you have installed, for temporary access to root use >sudo -i. Then change the password with passwd. I get error "user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported." Getting entered in the sudoers file seems to require already having a root password. > >Or, as Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> suggests, do it manually during >installation. No workee. >> Either way I get an error message saying that the ioctl is not >> appropriate for the shell. How can I fix that? -- Noah Sombrero
