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Armbian syst on Banana Pi: i ve forgotten the root passwd

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Armbian syst on Banana Pi: i ve forgotten the root passwd

#1 Post by say_hello »

hi there good day


i run a debian based lnux on Archlnux - on a Banana Pi


Well so far so good:

On Linux, the root account is a special user account on Linux that has access to all files, all commands and whatsoever


i have Armbian system on a Banana Pi and i ve forgotten the passwd.

the question is: how can we change the root password on Debian 10


damned: i ve heard that
To change the root password on Debian, i need to have sudo privileges

but wait: i do not have the actual password of the root account.

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$ sudo -l

User <user> may run the following commands on host-debian:
Well i guess that i should be able to change the root password.

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Re: Armbian syst on Banana Pi: i ve forgotten the root passw

#2 Post by say_hello »

hi there - did it

all works perfectly now

cheers

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$ sudo passwd

Changing password for user root.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

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Re: Armbian syst on Banana Pi: i ve forgotten the root passw

#3 Post by arochester »

Not the actual Debian then.
Armbian is a Debian and Ubuntu based computer operating system for ARM development boards.
Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armbian

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