ZenLive 7 admin/root password?

kevison · **Posted:** Fri May 13, 2011 12:30 pm

I downloaded ZL7 yesterday afternoon and brought it up under vmware. I have ZL6.4 and use it with vmware. I know the root password for ZL6.4 ZenLive works fine... however with ZL7 it does not. Did the root password for ZL 7 change?

thansk

stillborn · **Posted:** Fri May 13, 2011 7:04 pm

if you want root user you have to boot with rootpw cheatcode

Code:

rootpw=somepassword

kevison · **Posted:** Mon May 16, 2011 11:26 am

stillborn wrote:

if you want root user you have to boot with rootpw cheatcode

Code:

rootpw=somepassword

awesome thnks!

johnh10000 · **Joined:** Mon May 23, 2011 7:02 am **Posts:** 3

kevison wrote:

stillborn wrote:

if you want root user you have to boot with rootpw cheatcode

Code:

rootpw=somepassword

awesome thnks!

yeah me too, cheers

unist · **Joined:** Sat Nov 19, 2011 10:21 pm **Posts:** 3

johnh10000 wrote:

kevison wrote:

stillborn wrote:

if you want root user you have to boot with rootpw cheatcode

Code:

rootpw=somepassword

awesome thnks!

yeah me too, cheers

Can you please tell me how did you apply rootpw=somepassword? I am using the Live CD to try Zenwalk first. I have little experience in Linux. Thank you.

zenwalkuser · **Joined:** Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:16 pm **Posts:** 884

In order to use a "cheat code" in ZenLive, just press TAB at the boot menu right after you have selected your language, you can then pass any valid boot option on the boot prompt command line including the rootpasswd=somepassword cheatcode.
For more information about how to submit boot parameters via isolinux boot loader, please refer to the isolinux documentation.

unist · **Joined:** Sat Nov 19, 2011 10:21 pm **Posts:** 3

zenwalkuser wrote:

In order to use a "cheat code" in ZenLive, just press TAB at the boot menu right after you have selected your language, you can then pass any valid boot option on the boot prompt command line including the rootpasswd=somepassword cheatcode.
For more information about how to submit boot parameters via isolinux boot loader, please refer to the isolinux documentation.

Thank you zenwalkuser!!!

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