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I'm trying to use Su to log into root.
I have tried My own password, root, (blank), toor, and admin, I just get invalid password.
I need to use su ...
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- 07-10-2011 #1Just Joined!
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I just installed Arch, but I can't use su/sudo to log into root!I'm tr
I'm trying to use Su to log into root.
I have tried My own password, root, (blank), toor, and admin, I just get invalid password.
I need to use su to make myself a sudouser so I can use actually sudo.
Please help. I can't go into fallback because it doesn't recognize my password. :/
Edit: I messed up the title. -_-
- 07-10-2011 #2
Have you added yourself to the wheel group? If not, login as root and run
Then re-login with your normal user. From now on you should be able to use su and sudo.Code:usermod -a -G wheel yourusername
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