Re: su won't work from a debian live USB install

2017-06-25 Thread Phil Wyett
On Sun, 2017-06-25 at 19:20 -0400, daniel theobald wrote: > I installed the Debian 9 from a Debian live amd64 image I downloaded > today.  Everything works great, but I can't su to apt-get anything > new. > > theo@debian:~$ su > Password:  > su: Authentication failure > > I have reinstalled twice

Re: su won't work from a debian live USB install

2017-06-25 Thread Jim Ohlstein
Hello, On 06/25/2017 07:20 PM, daniel theobald wrote: I installed the Debian 9 from a Debian live amd64 image I downloaded today. Everything works great, but I can't su to apt-get anything new. theo@debian:~$ su Password: su: Authentication failure I have reinstalled twice, being super caref

su won't work from a debian live USB install

2017-06-25 Thread daniel theobald
I installed the Debian 9 from a Debian live amd64 image I downloaded today. Everything works great, but I can't su to apt-get anything new. theo@debian:~$ su Password: su: Authentication failure I have reinstalled twice, being super careful to get the password right, etc. But it simply doesn't