Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.
Visit Stack Exchange
Stack Internal
Knowledge at work
Bring the best of human thought and AI automation together at your work.
Explore Stack Internal This looks like a deliberate decision in Linux Mint. I just freshly installed Mint 17.3 on a VM, and the root account has a password set in /etc/shadow. After changing my user password, su - accepts my previous user password.
I can't (yet) explain why though.
I've just done a fresh install of Mint 18.3, and I don't have a password set for my root account. sudo grep root /etc/shadow shows ! in the password field, which means that the account is locked.
This looks like a deliberate decision in Linux Mint. I just freshly installed Mint 17.3 on a VM, and the root account has a password set in /etc/shadow. After changing my user password, su - accepts my previous user password.
I can't (yet) explain why though.
I've just done a fresh install of Mint 18.3, and I don't have a password set for my root account. sudo grep root /etc/shadow shows ! in the password field.
This looks like a deliberate decision in Linux Mint. I just freshly installed Mint 17.3 on a VM, and the root account has a password set in /etc/shadow. After changing my user password, su - accepts my previous user password.
I can't (yet) explain why though.
I've just done a fresh install of Mint 18.3, and I don't have a password set for my root account. sudo grep root /etc/shadow shows ! in the password field, which means that the account is locked.
This looks like a deliberate decision in Linux Mint. I just freshly installed Mint 17.3 on a VM, and the root account has a password set in /etc/shadow. After changing my user password, su - accepts my previous user password.
I can't (yet) explain why though.
I've just done a fresh install of Mint 18.3, and I don't have a password set for my root account. sudo grep root /etc/shadow shows ! in the password field.
This looks like a deliberate decision in Linux Mint. I just freshly installed Mint 17.3 on a VM, and the root account has a password set in /etc/shadow. After changing my user password, su - accepts my previous user password.
I can't (yet) explain why though.
This looks like a deliberate decision in Linux Mint. I just freshly installed Mint 17.3 on a VM, and the root account has a password set in /etc/shadow. After changing my user password, su - accepts my previous user password.
I can't (yet) explain why though.
I've just done a fresh install of Mint 18.3, and I don't have a password set for my root account. sudo grep root /etc/shadow shows ! in the password field.
This looks like a deliberate decision in Linux Mint. I just freshly installed Mint 17.3 on a VM, and the root account has a password set in /etc/shadow. After changing my user password, su - accepts my previous user password.
I can't (yet) explain why though.
