live CD root password?? -- UPDATE : real oddity
Beartooth Sciurivore
beartooth at swva.net
Mon Jun 9 15:53:36 UTC 2008
On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:33:23 -0700, Mick M. wrote:
> to be root "su -" note the minus sign.
> Then "passwd" enter roots new password twice.
>
> Then when you need it just type it in.
>
> A lot of CD releases you have to "sudo" to do root stuff. e.g. "sudo
> fdisk -l"
Yes, I know all that; I must just have been too lazy to type it;
but I was trying to ask what the password *is* -- none of my guesses
([none], root, toor, fedora, arodef) worked. And if it was in the readme,
I missed it.
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Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
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