I've gotten myself into a weird situation. I just installed Debian on a virtual machine I made so that I can ease into it before I try dual booting. I went through all the set up, and as a test to see if I did it all right, I went to install wine (that should double check the Internet connection as well as make sure my sudo
password is working. Unfortunately, I got the "wrong password try again
" error. After some digging around on the internet I found out the following facts:
- Debian user accounts don't come standard with
root
access (that's a good thing). - There is no such thing as a
root
user in Debian. There is a user group of "sudoers" instead. - You can't add anyone to the
sudoer
group without root access yourself.
Given that information, I found out that the one account I have does not have root access and therefore doesn't have the ability to give access (to itself or any other account). So, how on earth do I get an account with root access? I feel like I'm missing something really simple here, but I can't imagine what it is.
sudo
is not installed by default. 3. Of course. Which flavour of Debian did you install? Perhaps it's a new "feature". – roaima May 27 '16 at 12:49su
with it? – Guido May 27 '16 at 14:45