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Old 02-19-2007, 01:25 PM   #1
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Root password during install? [solved]

Stupid question maybe, but in 5.32 in the book i'm told to login as root and change ownership of $LFS/tools to root. And, ehm...'su' prompts for a password...
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Old 02-19-2007, 01:29 PM   #2
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It's prompting you for your root password that you setup when you installed your distro...
 
Old 02-19-2007, 02:55 PM   #3
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I should have mentioned i'm using the livecd. Searching the website I only found that it should work with just hiting enter, but an old bug set the password to 'lfs'. Neither works, however.
 
Old 02-19-2007, 03:41 PM   #4
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I found it; the command is "exit" not "su".
 
Old 04-04-2008, 04:20 PM   #5
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Thank you!
Thank you man. Very useful.
 
  


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