setting root password during liveCD installation

newbiesforever · 08-25-2012, 04:47 PM

While trying to set the root password during liveCD installation, something happened that I've never seen a liveCD do. When I entered a new root password for the hard drive installation, the installer apparently changed the liveCD's root password to that as well. I repeated this to see if it was an error; it happened again. If VectorLinux is supposed to do this, it makes no sense.

pixellany · 08-27-2012, 05:15 AM

Live CDs often do not have any password. Also, once you are running the "live" Linux from RAM, you typically don't need a password for anything.

Point being: In all my Linux installs, this could have happened many times and I would never have known it.

newbiesforever · 08-27-2012, 09:46 AM

You're right, the VectorLinux liveCD has no password. But it's still peculiar that when I entered a password for the new hard drive installation, the liveCD began using that password.

jefro · 08-27-2012, 08:10 PM

Depending on the distro and version you may or may not have a password for root.

I agree that it is odd. Not a common thing but as noted, I may have never noticed it.

SecretCode · 08-28-2012, 05:40 AM

I'm intrigued. Is this with an actual CD (not a Live USB)? And if you boot it in another machine or after a complete shutdown, it now has a root password? That would seem to imply some persistent data that shouldn't be possible on a CD.

newbiesforever · 08-28-2012, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by SecretCode

I'm intrigued. Is this with an actual CD (not a Live USB)? And if you boot it in another machine or after a complete shutdown, it now has a root password? That would seem to imply some persistent data that shouldn't be possible on a CD.

Yes, it's a CD. But I haven't tried shutting it down. I know the root password changed only because after I entered a root password for the hard drive installation, I eventually tried to perform some root function on the liveCD (during the same session), and the previous password (nothing; you just pressed enter) had changed.