[NTLUG:Discuss] root password in Knoppix

[Burton Strauss]

With normal Knoppix the root is deliberately scrambled so you use sudo.

However, from the console you can reset it - which the instructions on the
opening page instruct you to do before starting ssh.

If that's what's laid down on the hard drive, then use the root shell option
in the menus and then do a passwd cmd.

-----Burton

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf
Of Peter A. Koren
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 4:05 AM
To: NTLUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] root password in Knoppix

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 04:15 -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> Terry wrote:
> 
> >On 7/20/05, Peter A. Koren <p.koren at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I put a Knoppix based live DVD -- Quantian Knoppix -- in the DVD 
> >>drive and booted right in to the KDE desktop as the user "Knoppix". 
> >>When I tried to access some directories on one various partitions, I 
> >>ran into a permissions problem. When I tried to become root, I 
> >>realized that I do not have the password. What to do?
> >>
> >>-- Pete
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
> >You'll probably find a "root shell" in the start menu, (I think it's 
> >under "Knoppix").
> >
> >In other words:
> >Click on 'K' at the lower left hand corner of your screen, scroll to 
> >KNOPPIX and then click on the 'root shell' icon.
> >(You [should] get a terminal window where you're already logged in as 
> >root.)
> >  
> >
> If I remember correctly (a big IF) the password is blank (just press
Enter).
> 

Thanks for the clue. That will make it easy. But I can tell you that your
last suggestion, that the password is blank, does not work -- at least on my
Quantian version of Knoppix. I tried that one as my first guess at the
password.


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