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Re: Knoppix question



On Monday 08 November 2004 09:11 am, Mike Cash wrote:
> After entering a terminal window, and typing su, it went immediately to
> a root shell rather than prompting for a password.  Is there any way to
> remedy that?

I'm assuming that you have already installed to hard drive, if you are running 
off of CD there is of course no easy way to do this.
All you need to do is put a password on the root account.
Open terminal-  su -- passwd -- enter new root password -- your done.
Now just don't forget your pw.
Matt Wehland


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