How Can I change the Root Password?

[ukbrian]

Thank you Sir Mr AustinTexas
You are my hero


Can I make you a nice cup of tea Mr AustinTexas, you have saved an old man from doing a boring pointless task many times a day, with this increase in my productivity I might be able to retire early.

I was an early adopter of Ghost I found/prefered to install a quick back up rather than try to undo some messes I made, I've been running win7 for three years without any anti virus running, I just do backups with Macrium Reflect free edition, 10 minutes and I have my system back after disaster strikes.

With Debian linux I use saline-backup to clone the partition or create a backup file, it was written for Squeeze but still runs on Jessie with systemd, I want to try it on EvolveOS but Yad isn't in the repos yet, I suppose I could try it on Manjaro where the saline-backup dev moved to, it was unsettling when within 6 months Saline OS closed down and migrated away from Debian to Manjaro and Ikey closed down his Debian SolusOS and then built his own new Linux base, 2 guys I respect moving away from Debian starts you thinking about the future, wouldn't surprise me if Deepin moved from a Ubuntu base to Ikey's new base.



I'm in you debt Sir, big time, one of the main Linux irritations removed.


Freedom from the nanny at last, I can relax again and not be constantly irritated, my quality of life has improved.

There's always another problem though.

[AustinTexas]

Can I make you a nice cup of tea Mr AustinTexas, you have saved an old man from doing a boring pointless task many times a day, with this increase in my productivity I might be able to retire early.

I would go for a shot of tea-quila.

[ukbrian]

I addedthat line to the live DVD but still no joy, it's not an ISO file it's a CD so I guess I need to create an ISO file first but xfburn don't do that so I'll have to look around for summat.

@AustinTexas

I would go for a shot of tea-quila.

Good shot, I'm going to need a bit of time to think up an appropriate responce.

Meanwhile I added this line to try and get thunar to load other partitions in the sidebar quietly instead of requesting permission. It seems to work but I still have to give it a good roadtest later.

Code:

user   ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/thunar

Gotta burn some rubber, see ya

[ukbrian]

My celebration was premature 

I'm still being asked for a bl**dy password when I try to open a partition on my internal sata drive.

Please Mr AustenTexas can you help a poor Welsh sheep sh*ging redneck?

[AustinTexas]

I don't think it is sudoers (or sudo) that is managing that function, I think it is Policykit.
I find that password request to mount a partition annoying and unnecessary, also. I will see if I can figure it out...

I tried editing /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/50-localauthority.conf
from "AdminIdentities=unix-user:0"
to "AdminIdentities=unix-user:0;unix-user:dan"
but that did not do it.

[ukbrian]

Thanks for trying man 
I'm banjaxed today so I'm off to chill for a bit

[ukbrian]

I just installed a saline-backup of Mint and Xubuntu and in neither one did thunar ask for permission to mount partitions as I expected.

If there's anything I can check in Mint just ask.

[rokytnji]

Code:

locate pwd

Code:

locate passwd

you will see hidden files beginning with a "."

eg:

/etc/.pwd.lock

Some files are in code. Some not.  Not a coder. So I cannot tell you how to edit. Just only how to look around.

[ukbrian]

The idiot is still struggling.

I installed locate but didn't get anything out of it so I used catfish but didn't find anything that looked like an answer.

I'm not giving a machine to new comers that keeps asking for passwords but I'm also not going to install mint as I will do nothing to help clem.

Thanks for trying Bro.

[rokytnji]

After installing locate.

Code:

sudo updatedb

is the 1st thing that should be done after a locate install. It will take a while to finish so give it some time.

The command I gave above updates the data base immediately. After that. I think a cron job in locate text file updates it periodically.
I usually just updatedb manually after downloading anything from the net so it shows later on when I need to find it.