Linux Mint Debian 201109 - root password

[docinthebox]

Hi, I'm using the newly released Linux Mint Debian 201109 as a live dvd.

I clicked on Applications > All > Root Terminal, and it asks for a password. What's the password for root?

I tried doing "sudo passwd" and "sudo passwd root", it asks for "password for mint". I tried "mint" but that's not it.

Thanks.

[wayne128]

Hi, I'm using the newly released Linux Mint Debian 201109 as a live dvd.

I clicked on Applications > All > Root Terminal, and it asks for a password. What's the password for root?

I tried doing "sudo passwd" and "sudo passwd root", it asks for "password for mint". I tried "mint" but that's not it.

Thanks.

When you are running Live DVD, you do not need password to become root

On terminal, type sudo su <enter>, you get into # prompt

[docinthebox]

When I type "sudo su" at the prompt "mint@mint", it says "[sudo] password for mint: "

If I ignore it and press return, it will ask again "Sorry, try again".

[StanTheMan]

Running LMDE Live , Terminal
if you tryp " sudo " followd by a bash command , it will not ask for password.

If you type " sudo passwd " , it will ask for a Unix password. You can enter one of your choice , followed by a repeat. This new UNIX password can then be used after " su " , to get into Root, until the Live is re-booted, when this un-saved passwword is lost.

This is standard practice with Ubuntu, but NOT with pure Debian .

[arcano_mephisto]

I have this trouble too.
I use Linux Mint Debian 201109 Gnome
I use Live-USB with YUMI(like a unebootlin).

[zerozero]

@arcano_mephisto, your problem is different from the OP, you are using basically a kind of Pendrivelinux and that tool somehow creates a persistent live-usb, try with unetbootin and you shouldn't have that error

[Driger]

I had this problem too.

Result is here:
1) In Linux Mint press CTRL+ALT+F1 (you get in terminal)
2) write to console: su (now you are root)
3) write to console: passwd
4) set new root password now
5) press CTRL+ALT+F7

And now root user have your defined password until you reboot your system. It's working, i used it...

[MikeF90000]

On the live CD, I'm pretty sure that issuing 'sudo -s' will not prompt you for a password.

[Nikolai Beier]

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sudo -s

was surely meant to be working, but I have seen a case where it does not, depending on the hardware on which the live system is booted.

Using the ISO image for 32 bit and CD's of Mint 12, burned to a CD and booted from that CD, I saw this:
On a IBM R40 laptop It boots without any sign of error, but
* there is no icon on the desktop to the live-installer program
* sudo or SU does not work, user "mint" has blank password
* no infinity menu in the upper left corner, so Gnome Shell with MGSE is not running. Perhaps it is Gnome 3 in "fallback mode"?
This is the graphics chip of the R40: ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, 32 MiB RAM.

Perhaps it is the same bug on LMDE and Mint 12?

The same happens with an iso transferred to a USB pendrive, so it is not just because something went wrong in that image conversion.

Now, booting a newer SL500 laptop with nvidia G 105M graphics, the live system boots up in what looks like Gnome 3 + MGSE, with an icon on the desktop for the live-installer, the infinity menu works, and sudo works as expected.

It seems the error is triggered when the live system tries "plan B" with the GUI/gnome. Unfortunately it is far from obvious that the live-installer fails silently in the fallback gnome version (which is there because of poor hardware support for some graphics chips)

[starsareblood]

I'm in the same boat, it's very strange, I'm trying to install lmde from a live-usb, but there's no option to install from setup. When it boots I try to sudo live-installer but it asks me for a password. I've tried all the usual pass words [enter, mint, root, sudo, su, tux, etc]. I haven't got persistance or anything set. It's just weird that it asks for a root password on a live-usb...

[zerozero]

[...]I'm trying to install lmde from a live-usb[...]

how did you create that live-usb?

[o_unico]

[...]I'm trying to install lmde from a live-usb[...]

how did you create that live-usb?

Same problem here, I used Lilo and unetbootin. Funny thing, soon as this version was released I installed without any problem via USB. Now I'm stuck into it. I'm trying using the same old file I downloaded by the time.

[dman]

I had this problem too.

Result is here:
1) In Linux Mint press CTRL+ALT+F1 (you get in terminal)
2) write to console: su (now you are root)
3) write to console: passwd
4) set new root password now
5) press CTRL+ALT+F7

And now root user have your defined password until you reboot your system. It's working, i used it...

I had this trouble and I tried exactly this. I can log in to the console and su. But I cannot change root's password. Typing "passwd" brings up an empty line, not a real prompt.

I successfully created another system user and added him to group root, and I successfully logged in to the Live GUI environment as that user, but even then I could not, e.g., run gparted. It wanted root's password.

This is with a fresh LMDE 32-bit live USB key.