Timeline for change root password back to user password
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| Dec 19, 2017 at 14:53 | vote | accept | Neil_UK | ||
| Dec 19, 2017 at 14:50 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackUnix/status/943131498185666561 | ||
| Dec 19, 2017 at 12:22 | comment | added | Neil_UK | @terdon to confirm, `Defaults rootpw' is present in the file. If I remove that now, will that brick anything? Will it give me single password access to my user account, sudo and su? Should I disable the root account subsequently? I don't have ssh server keys set up on this machine. | |
| Dec 19, 2017 at 12:17 | history | edited | Neil_UK | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 2 characters in body |
| Dec 19, 2017 at 12:17 | comment | added | terdon♦ | OK, in that case, please show us the output of sudo grep -E 'rootpw|runaspw' /etc/sudoers. If either of those is set in that file, you would want to remove them as ilkkachu mentions below. Then you can decide if you also want to deactivate the root account. And no, the command you show won't do that, see man passwd (and not password). | |
| Dec 19, 2017 at 12:11 | comment | added | Neil_UK | @terdon both sudo ls and su only respond to the one that's set for root. | |
| Dec 19, 2017 at 12:07 | answer | added | ilkkachu | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 19, 2017 at 12:05 | comment | added | terdon♦ | First, let's find out what the current situation is. Forget the GUI for a second. Open a terminal and run: i) sudo ls and ii) su. Each of those commands should ask for a password. The sudo one should ask for your user's password, the one you use when logging in and the su one should ask for the one you set up for root. Can you confirm that this is indeed what's going on? | |
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| Dec 19, 2017 at 11:55 | history | asked | Neil_UK | CC BY-SA 3.0 |