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NoSpamIsAccepted
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 01 Mar 2005
Posts: 30
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 Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:40 pm Post subject:
When is the root password set up?
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Hi,
I think I forget how I did one thing: set up root password.
When I first installed the Fedora Core on the PC, at some early step
after doing the disk partition, I was asked to set up the password for
root.
Now I want to know what tool it is to do that. Is that mke2fs? The
thing is when I run mk2fs on a floppy disk, I am not asked to set up
password. I am sure it is not fdisk as root file system has nothing to
do with MDR. Unfortunately I do not have a spare PC for me to try it,
and the Fedora web site only has some GUI snapshot of setting up
password, it does not say what tool is running underneath.
Fedora has these nice GUI installment wizard, but it is a little bit
harder to know what is the real flow. Is there any document on this.
Google does not return some clear reference.
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spike1@freenet.co.uk
*nix forums addict
Joined: 26 Jul 2005
Posts: 61
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:22 pm Post subject:
Re: When is the root password set up?
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NoSpamIsAccepted <clinton__bill@hotmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi,
I think I forget how I did one thing: set up root password.
When I first installed the Fedora Core on the PC, at some early step
after doing the disk partition, I was asked to set up the password for
root.
Now I want to know what tool it is to do that. Is that mke2fs?
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No, that reformats your partition as an ext2/3 filesystem, a little extreme
just to change the password (seeing as it won't do that anyway)
The command you want is passwd run as root.
just type
passwd
and it'll prompt you for the new password twice
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| Quote: | thing is when I run mk2fs on a floppy disk, I am not asked to set up
password.
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You won't be, there's no operating system on the floppy disk. all mke2fs
does is make an ext2/3 partition.
| Quote: | I am sure it is not fdisk as root file system has nothing to
do with MDR.
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Neither does fdisk. fdisk is the program that creates the partitions that
you use mk2fs on to create the filesystems that linux is installed on.
Unfortunately I do not have a spare PC for me to try it,
| Quote: | and the Fedora web site only has some GUI snapshot of setting up
password, it does not say what tool is running underneath.
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passwd |
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Laurenz Albe
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 21 Feb 2005
Posts: 478
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:58 pm Post subject:
Re: When is the root password set up?
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NoSpamIsAccepted <clinton__bill@hotmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I think I forget how I did one thing: set up root password.
When I first installed the Fedora Core on the PC, at some early step
after doing the disk partition, I was asked to set up the password for
root.
Now I want to know what tool it is to do that. Is that mke2fs?
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No :^)
Whatever distribution you have, do not use nice GUI tools to change the
root password.
Open a shell, become root, enter the command 'passwd'.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe |
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