How to enter as a root in freespire?

Mr.mick-duck · 08-23-2006, 05:17 AM

Hello,
I had install freespire recently ,and i want to now how to enter as root in the terminal and/or visual interface ?
Note :the program did not ask me for a root password as i used to do when i was using Mandrake and redhat.

odcheck · 08-23-2006, 05:29 AM

So I don't know your Distribution at all, but It looks like the Ubuntu thing.
Have you tried to perform a #passwd root
In order to do this you have to be a superuser.
Or boot in init 1 and then just enter #passwd
usaly the root user pw setup will be prompted
;-)

Mr.mick-duck · 08-23-2006, 05:37 AM

Thank you for reply
Sorry,can you explain more how to be a superuser?

freespire is a free linspire....

odcheck · 08-23-2006, 05:46 AM

I mean the using of the sudo command
So it should be like if your logged in as user charly so
charly@localhost: if you use the su command and you'll be asked for the root pw.
The one you don't got ;-)
so try #sudo /usr/bin/passwd root
Now you should been asked for the password your user has got and then you should be asked to setup your root pw and verify it.
Then the su command should work. In some Distributions graphical login using root is not allowed by the standard configuration.

Mr.mick-duck · 08-23-2006, 05:49 AM

Wow!!!
it's work
THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH..........