On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Mogens Kjaer wrote:

Alain Reguera Delgado wrote:

...

On 7/13/07, Mogens Kjaer mk@crc.dk wrote:

...

Does the root user on the CentOS 5 live CD have a password? If so, which?

See this: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-July/014021.html

Thanks for the link - I had only searched this list for the answer, not the announce list :-(

For someone else making this mistake the answer is 12qwaszx the first two characters in each row on the keyboard (unless you have a German keyboard).

But the real question is, why is there a root passwd in the first place?

I spent 2 hrs with google yesterday trying to find the answer to this question myself and the only way I found it was to ask on IRC (Thank you gh0st). Obviously, I too did not know the correct question to ask google. :-)

Could it be posted somewhere more prominent?

Just curious.

Regards,

Mogens Kjaer wrote:

Tom Diehl wrote: ...

...

Could it be posted somewhere more prominent?

Or removed in the next release?

Mogens

The next release will be a LiveCD based on the Fedora LiveCD project ... and will behave similarly to the Fedora7 liveCD.

It should not have a passwd for root.

Thanks, Johnny Hughes