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I have CentOS 6.3/Firefox/pre-made virtual machine. It installs without a root password so my question is - How do I make a root password? I've done this before but can't remember how to do it.
CentOS dose NOT use "sudo" by default
It is not set up by default ( might not even be installed )
and during the install it DOSE force you to make a root account and a root password Then on the very first boot it runs you through the first set up
where you make a required "normal user" account, set the time zone.
CentOS dose NOT use "sudo" by default
It is not set up by default ( might not even be installed )
and during the install it DOSE force you to make a root account and a root password Then on the very first boot it runs you through the first set up
where you make a required "normal user" account, set the time zone.
It is CentOS 6.3 with Firefox in a pre-made virtual machine. Apparently CentOS and Firefox combined forces to make a pre-made virtual machine with A/V protected browser (or something to that effect) and it doesn't ask to setup root password during install.
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