On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > Alain Reguera Delgado wrote: >> On 7/13/07, Mogens Kjaer <mk at 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, -- Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com