I could not login as root. I only had a non-privileged user name.

Thanks, Jerry

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Lucas Timm LH linuxhelper@gmail.comwrote:

Are you trying to log as root in GDM or in a TTY?

2011/2/3 Y. K. Liu ykliu7@gmail.com

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Hi,

I installed CentOS 4.8 on VMware Fusion 3.1.2. The installation was fine. During the installation, it asked me to enter my username and password. I tried to enter "root" as the username, but it was not allowed. So I had to enter other name for that.

After I logged into CentOS 4.8, I could not do sudo because I was a regular user. Could somebody tell me how I can become root?

Thank you. Jerry

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Thank you, Lucas and Aly, for your help.

I got the problem resolved now. When I installed CentOS 4.8 on VMware Fusion, I should not have used the VMware default easy installation, which bypassed the installation questions, including setting the root password. After I unchecked the easy installation, I was able to set the root password.

Thank you again, anyway. Jerry

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Y. K. Liu ykliu7@gmail.com wrote:

On a web site, I noticed that when installing CentOS 5.4 (not the 4.8 I installed), it asked to enter the password for the root.

However, I need to install CentOS 4.8, not the 5.4. During the installation of 4.8, it would not let me enter root for the username. So I could not create root username at that time, and I only had a non-privileged regular username.

Thanks, Jerry

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Y. K. Liu ykliu7@gmail.com wrote:

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I could not login as root. I only had a non-privileged user name.

Thanks, Jerry

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Lucas Timm LH linuxhelper@gmail.comwrote:

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Are you trying to log as root in GDM or in a TTY?

2011/2/3 Y. K. Liu ykliu7@gmail.com

...

Hi,

I installed CentOS 4.8 on VMware Fusion 3.1.2. The installation was fine. During the installation, it asked me to enter my username and password. I tried to enter "root" as the username, but it was not allowed. So I had to enter other name for that.

After I logged into CentOS 4.8, I could not do sudo because I was a regular user. Could somebody tell me how I can become root?

Thank you. Jerry

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I don't have the root password. During the installation on the VMware, It would not let me enter root for the username. So I only had a regular username to login.

Thanks, Jerry

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:33 AM, aly.khimji@gmail.com wrote:

Reboot into runlevel 1, and reset your root password and try again.

Should work to recover your root passwd

Aly

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