[OLPC-AU] root password for 1.5 for installing network printer

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Sun Sep 19 08:04:45 EDT 2010


On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 05:00:29PM +0800, Jim Sligar wrote:
> Anyone know what the default root password is for the 1.5 in gnome. 
> Seems to be "" in terminal.

The root password is not set on OLPC builds.  You can't log in as root.
However, the olpc user can sudo to root.

	sudo su

If you need to use the root username more directly, you can set the root
password:

	sudo passwd

But choose something secure, since once you do this the laptop can be
accessed remotely using that password.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/


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