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Topic: root password, what is the root password

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agrawaa1

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Posted: 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.

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Abhishek

Onikage
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Posted: 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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doobit

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Posted: 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.

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