HD permissions stay put

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 7/3/2011 9:56 PM, 夜神 岩男 wrote:
>
> The root account already exists, and you can log directly into it from a
> text login prompt. You just can't do it through GDM, so you will have to
> hop to another tty by hitting<ctrl>+<alt>+<f2>  or boot to runlevel 3
> (or the equivalent now that we are in the opening days or systemd). In
> this case you are not "su -" to anything, you really are logged in as
> root.
>

I will try learning how to boot runlevel 3 as an educational exercise 
... scratch account still seems easiest

> [...]

> -Iwao
Thanks for the info!
Paul