su won't work from a debian live USB install

From	daniel theobald <theobaldvecna@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	su won't work from a debian live USB install
Date	2017-06-26 01:40 +0200
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I installed the Debian 9 from a Debian live amd64 image I downloaded
today.  Everything works great, but I can't su to apt-get anything new.

theo@debian:~$ su
Password:
su: Authentication failure

I have reinstalled twice, being super careful to get the password right,
etc.  But it simply doesn't seem to work on this version.  Anyone else
seeing this problem?

Thanks,
Daniel

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su won't work from a debian live USB install daniel theobald <theobaldvecna@gmail.com> - 2017-06-26 01:40 +0200
  Re: su won't work from a debian live USB install Jim Ohlstein <jim@mailman-hosting.com> - 2017-06-26 02:40 +0200
  Re: su won't work from a debian live USB install Phil Wyett <philwyett@kathenas.org> - 2017-06-26 03:20 +0200

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