Root password live USB [SOLVED]

[DaTorbiera]

Hello,

The other day I created a live USB with Mint 16 Xfce with persistence. Works like a charm. I set up the WiFi, my VPN, the works. I even managed to set up a second user account using adduser.

But now that I'm trying to repeat all of this on another USB, I can no longer run adduser unless as log on as root. But since I don't know the password for root on the live image I'm stuck. Does anyone know what the password is ? All the usual ones don't work.

Many thanks

Michael

[wh7qq]

You don't need the root password. Just do

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sudo su

in a terminal and you will become root. If you must have a root password, you can then do

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passwd root newpassword 

(replace newpassword with your choice) but it will, of course, dissappear the next time you boot the live disk. Most commands will work by simply using

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sudo

preceding the command.

[ssfc72]

Doesn't work running mint4win.
After typing in, sudo su, in Terminal, I get a response that the command is not allowed.

[WinterTroubles]

mint4win
The mint4win Windows installer was not able to reliably handle the size of the ISO images. It was therefore removed and isn't available in Linux Mint 16.

From the release notes for mint 16 xfce