[NTLUG:Discuss] root password in Knoppix

[Russ]

On 7/21/05, Burton Strauss <Burton_Strauss at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.

Does this apply to Knoppix that has been loaded to the HD, versus
running from a CD or a DVD?
 
  The reason I ask is that I'm told that Knoppix does not use the HD,
while running from CD or DVD, unless a swap drive is already defined
on the HD.

Russ

> 
> -----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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