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Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem.

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Thanks, this fixed my problem and as Greg recommended I have reset mkdir 
ownership and options

On 11/5/21 7:35 PM, Jeremy Ardley wrote:
>
> On 6/11/21 7:17 am, Thomas George wrote:
>> when installing debian I entered eight digits as the root password. 
>> The instillation completed successfully. Later I tried to become root 
>> but the eight digits didn't work and many permutations also didn't work.
>>
>> I have used sudo successfully with many commands including mkdir but 
>> sudo tar fails to uncompress files because it cannot make the 
>> necessary directories. That is sudo tar runs but must use mkdir which 
>> fails.
>>
>> I have found mkdir in /usr/bin and changed the ownership to root:tom 
>> and given it rwx permissions but this does not solve the problem.
>>
>> If there are no suggested solutions to this email tomorrow I will 
>> backup all my files to external drive and reinstall bullseye
>>
>>
> Try
>
> sudo passwd root
>
> And reset the root password to a known string
>

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unkown root password and mkdir problem. Thomas George <lists@tomgeorge.info> - 2021-11-06 00:30 +0100
  Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem. Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2021-11-06 00:40 +0100
    Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-06 01:10 +0100
    Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem. Thomas George <lists@tomgeorge.info> - 2021-11-06 03:20 +0100
      Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem. deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org> - 2021-11-06 07:30 +0100
  Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem. Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 13:20 +0100
    Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem. Michael Castellon <castellonmichael@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 16:00 +0100

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