root password

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: root password
started by: agrawaa1

Posted by agrawaa1 on Feb. 08 2006,20:39

I downloaded the current.iso image of DSL available from ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/current/

It did not asked me to set up any account or anything but when I tried to ping, it asked for root privileges. where can I get the root password from

Thanks.

Best Regards,
Abhishek

Posted by Onikage on Feb. 24 2006,08:10

There simply is no root password.

Just type:

sudo su

and that will give you root priviledges.

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Posted by doobit on Feb. 24 2006,15:06

If you later want to add a root password, you can. With a Frugal install or liveCD, or pendrive, you type dsl and the cheat codes host=yourhostnamehere and secure at the boot prompt or in the first line of your menu.lst in a grub install.

Posted by bengc on Feb. 28 2006,00:54

using dsl 2.0 entered sudo su and asked for password its not root toor password or (blank)

Pls help

Posted by _pathos on Feb. 28 2006,01:08

I added a line in .bash_profile that overwrites /etc/passwd with a modified file (using passwd).
eg
sudo cp ~/startup/passwd /etc/passwd