Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem.

2021-12-10 Thread Michael Castellon
for superuser: su regards. On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 4:14 AM Andrei POPESCU 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 > > dire

Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem.

2021-12-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
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

Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem.

2021-11-05 Thread deloptes
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 -- FCD6 3719 0FFB F1BF 38EA 4727 5348 5F1F DCFE BCB0

Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem.

2021-11-05 Thread Thomas George
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

Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem.

2021-11-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
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 ro

Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem.

2021-11-05 Thread Jeremy Ardley
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 c

unkown root password and mkdir problem.

2021-11-05 Thread Thomas George
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