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Posted: April 03 2005,12:04 QUOTE
i was playing around with dsl last night when it asked me for the root password, i figured there wasent one so i hit enter.... but it says incorrect... whats the root password?  :( thanks

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Posted: April 03 2005,13:34 QUOTE
covered OFTEN on the forums...
there is no root password. use 'sudo su' to get a root shell, set your own root password. blah.

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Posted: April 04 2005,03:25 QUOTE
In other words:

sudo passwd

and type in your new root password here.
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Posted: April 18 2005,10:15 QUOTE
how can i say to DSL that **** is my new password? In other words, what is the exact command i have to type? :p
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Posted: April 18 2005,16:15 QUOTE
Open an xterminal window and type:

passwd              (to set password for username "dsl")

or

sudo passwd      (to set password for username "root")
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