Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

[gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On 6/12/22 12:41, Dan Ritter wrote:
> gene heskett wrote:
> > On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> > > On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote:
> > That's not the important first impression however. Installing without a root
> > pw, I am prevented from doing anything to the system setup cuz everything
> > but synaptic wants a root pw, and does not accept my pw as user 1000 for
> > sudo.
>
> Open a terminal, type
>
> sudo passwd root
>
> and give root a password.
>
> -dsr-


Not an option I want, pw are not remembered well. sudo is supposed to do 
that for me.

> Thanks Dan, Cheers, Gene
>
> .