On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:20:01 +0200, Noah Sombrero <fed...@fea.st> wrote:
>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 guess the next step is to reinstall debian without specifying a root >password, so I can use sudo to establish one. After that, perhaps I >can log in as root. That does work. I am on my way now to deal with the display problem. >> >>Or, as Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> suggests, do it manually during >>installation. >>> >>> Either way I get an error message saying that the ioctl is not >>> appropriate for the shell. How can I fix that? -- Noah Sombrero
