On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 03:10:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 07:56:56PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: >> I understand that debian 11 does not establish a root password during >> installation, regardless of what the installer says. > >This is not correct. So much for online help. >> 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 > >That's not correct either. This process described above must be given in a dozen places online. > >During the Debian (NOT LIVE!!) installation, you will be prompted for >the root password. You will also be told that you may leave this >password empty, and that if you do so, the sudo package will be installed, >and your initial user account will be added to the sudo group, granting >unlimited sudo access. > >Therefore, in a Debian (NOT LIVE!!) installation, there are two >possibilities: > >1) The root account has a password, and you can use this to login directly > as root ON A TEXT CONSOLE (not necessarily in a GUI), or to switch to > root with the su command. I have installed this debian many times in trying to fix video problems. Not once has an entered password worked. The process described above using the grub edit did work once. >2) Your initial user account -- the one you set up during installation -- > will be able to ascend to root privileges with the sudo command. Does not work for me. >In the second case, if you wish to give root a usable password, all you >have to do is run: > >sudo passwd root I get "user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported." Getting entered in the sudoers file seems to require having a root password already. -- Noah Sombrero
