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Thread: login as root - bye sudo

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    login as root - bye sudo

    If you want login as root and not as the default knoppix user there is a way.
    At boot time type

    knoppix single

    you will login in text mode then

    root@tty[/]# startx

    to start kde

    That is all. Now you are full root.
    No more need for sudo.
    knoppix easier than ever. :P

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    knoppix single? What happened to Knoppix 2?

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    use knoppix single 1 2 3 or 4

    an alternative is getting a password with

    root@tty[/]# passwd

    an then

    root@tty[/]# kdm

    this way you will login with the usual wallpaper and the girl voice

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    I've tried booting with "knoppix single" start x, etc. I also made myself a root@tty login with a password, but I still cannot alter, move, or delete, or change permissions on any file from my old windows system. :cry:

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    Quote Originally Posted by benmayim
    I've tried booting with "knoppix single" start x, etc. I also made myself a root@tty login with a password, but I still cannot alter, move, or delete, or change permissions on any file from my old windows system.
    Hard drive partitions are mounted read-only as a precaution, to mount a drive as read-write :
    Code:
    mount -o remount,rw /mnt/hda1
    for hda1.

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    Re: login as root - bye sudo

    --Just so you know, running everything as root is a **huge** security hole and can be quite dangerous to all mounted filesystems if an ' rm ' command goes wrong. But for a live-cd with everything mounted read-only by default, it's not that critical.

    --Incidentally this is a good way to save memory, since you have only 1 tty terminal. If you boot with another desktop (icewm, et al) it will save even more resources.

    Quote Originally Posted by oscar
    If you want login as root and not as the default knoppix user there is a way.
    At boot time type

    knoppix single

    you will login in text mode then

    root@tty[/]# startx

    to start kde

    That is all. Now you are full root.
    No more need for sudo.
    knoppix easier than ever. :P

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    I do this : "sudo su" in any terminal

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    Changing hda1 Permissions

    Right Click Hard Disk(hda1) icon and "Change read/write mode.

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    how do i get to root,if im using the live CD boot?

    how do i get to root,if im using the live CD boot?,since i want to use partimage-when open it,it warns,you are not logged in as root,access denied error

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    Code:
    sudo partimage
    should work
    sudo should give you acess to most programs.

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