Surprising Upgrade

[dhinds]

Although my intention was to do a fresh installation (I was no longer able to boot into my Sparky Ultra Openbox) and figured I'd save some time by installing Sparky Multimedia 4.4.  I installed over the same partitions (/, /home and swap), which recovered and upgraded everything.

The root partition was reformatted but the home partition wasn't.

I'm running the lxpanel above and the xfce4-panel below and everything's working better than ever.

One thing I want to do though is recreate a root/administrative user and password (as I had originally), since the user password is very simple.

[pavroo]

To change your password, type:

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passwd
and type your present password, then twice new one.

To change root password, type:

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sudo su
and type your present password, then

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passwd
and twice new root password.

[dhinds]

To change your password, type:

Code Select Expand

passwd
and type your present password, then twice new one.

To change root password, type:

Code Select Expand

sudo su
and type your present password, then

Code Select Expand

passwd
and twice new root password.

Thanks Pavroo. As always, I receive rapid, concise and complete responses when needed. Sparky is tops!

[randalhoctor]

I've had an experience after this last round of upgrades his week.

My "user" lost all root access privileges. So, I couldn't launch Synaptic, gparted, and grub customizer.

So I learned how to give user sudoers temp root by edit of visudo (I hate nano btw and so exported to Leafpad

Then I learned to edit /etc/passwd to give user root level powers by editing to change UID and GID to 0. (Yes. I made an additional backup)

So, I learned a lot, but still can't get "user" to show up in LightDM menu AND in terminal can't get down to a regular $ state. Any ideas?

[pavroo]

You do not need to edit anything.
There was an issue with 'policykit-1-gnome' 0.105-4.
I uploaded from Sid version 0.105-5 to sparky repos so upgrade the package and reboot.

[pavroo]

Some Sparky desktops need manuall fixing http://sparkylinux.org/authentication-agent-issue/