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Re: Authentication failed after su-



Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> wrote:
>> From: "Dan Ritter" <dsr@randomstring.org>

>>> In a terminal, I typed:
>>>
>>> username@hostname:~$ su -l -c "wpa_passphrase JupiterRising 1234567890 > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf"
>>> Password:
>>> su: Authentication failure

>> That means that you failed to give the root password.

> I disabled the root password during the process of installing Debian 11.

> What should I do to resolve the issue?

Use sudo.

wpa_passphrase JupiterRising 1234567890 | sudo tee /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

Grüße,
S°

-- 
Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.


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