How can I set a root password????

[oganika]

Hey I'm currently working on a remasterd knoppix cd.

All is going well but I cant set a root password if I do set passwd then it does nothing.

Can sombody help me.?????[/b]

[mcreel]

When you're in the chroot environment, just type "passwd" and follow the instructions.

[oganika]

this does not work?????

when I remaster I still don't have to give a password

[mcreel]

Hmm, I did it just the other day to set a root password for the parallelknoppix remaster. Can you describe what you're doing in more detail. I'm talking about remastering after having copied the source to HD, and doing a chroot from my normal Debian installation. I'm not familiar with the other methods.

[oganika]

I found a sollution. I just disable su and sudo. with a startup script so the users of my kiosk can no tgo in te root

but thanks for the effort mcreel

[alternatix]

I have the same problem:

Whatever I do, I dont need a password to be root; I only need to type "su".

I tried:

chmod 0 su

but it blocks at start

or

I tried to disable knoppix in /etc/sudoers

but then some applications doesn't work because they need root.

I found a half-solution:

I modified /etc/profile. Icommented this line (the last one in the file):
#alias su="sudo su"

Now if I type "su", I need a password.

But if I type "sudo su", I don't need it anymore.

[knoppu]

>> I tried to disable knoppix in /etc/sudoers

use that file to define what you want "knoppix" to have access to . (man sudo )