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DrWilken is offline DrWilken
2010-12-24 , 13:35
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#29
Originally Posted by udaychaitanya16 View Post
please tell me how to set password for root or user.I mean to say if i type sudogainroot it should ask me the password i set.I saw it on UBUNTU but unable to do so on N900.
Change to root:
Code:
root
Set password for user:
Code:
passwd user
or root:

Code:
passwd root
It still won't ask You for a password when You use 'sudo gainroot' or 'root' (which does the same thing. changes to root WITHOUT asking for a password). It's what the "rootsh" package is meant to do.
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