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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

#241910 — unkown root password and mkdir problem.

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

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#241912

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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

-- 
Jeremy

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#241913

On Sat, Nov 06, 2021 at 07:35:22AM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote:
> On 6/11/21 7:17 am, Thomas George wrote:
> > 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.

> Try
> 
> sudo passwd root
> 
> And reset the root password to a known string

And after you do that, change the ownership and permissions of
/usr/bin/mkdir back to what they are supposed to be:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 85184 Sep 24  2020 mkdir

If that wasn't what they were originally, then your system is severely
broken, and all bets are off.

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#241915

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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#241917

Thomas George wrote:

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

If I were you, I would be very careful using root

-- 
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On Vi, 05 nov 21, 19:17:11, Thomas George wrote:
> 
> 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.

In such cases you might want to run the command in a `sudo -i` (or '-s', 
depending on your preference) session.

Kind regards,
Andrei
-- 
http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

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#242913

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for superuser:
su

regards.



On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 4:14 AM Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Vi, 05 nov 21, 19:17:11, Thomas George wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> In such cases you might want to run the command in a `sudo -i` (or '-s',
> depending on your preference) session.
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
> --
> http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
>

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