How do you change the root password on Debian?
Ah, use the passwd
program as root:
sudo passwd root
Or, if you’re running as root already (which you shouldn’t be), just:
passwd
The root
argument can be omitted, because when you execute passwd
it defaults to the current user (which is root, as only root can change the root password).
If you're going to be doing a lot of command-line administration, you might find it useful to check out the man pages for usermod(8), chfn(1), chsh(1), passwd(1), crypt(3), gpasswd(8), groupadd(8),