login as root - bye sudo

If you want login as root 8) and not as the default knoppix user :cry: 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

knoppix single? What happened to Knoppix 2?

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

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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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. :cry:

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Hard drive partitions are mounted read-only as a precaution, to mount a drive as read-write :

Code:

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mount -o remount,rw /mnt/hda1

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for hda1.

--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.

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Originally Posted by oscar

If you want login as root 8) and not as the default knoppix user :cry: 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

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

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

Code:

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sudo partimage

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should work
sudo should give you acess to most programs.