login as root

**oscar** · 08-05-2003, 01:50 AM

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

**jdong** · 08-05-2003, 02:47 AM

knoppix single? What happened to Knoppix 2?

**oscar** · 08-05-2003, 08:08 PM

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

**benmayim** · 08-18-2003, 12:50 PM

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:

**eadz** · 08-18-2003, 02:28 PM

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.

**Dave_Bechtel** · 09-06-2003, 10:07 PM

--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.

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

**didac** · 09-26-2003, 06:39 PM

I do this : "sudo su" in any terminal

**Gyrip** · 09-27-2003, 11:05 PM

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

**duah55** · 03-13-2004, 03:02 PM

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