dil_bert Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 hello dear all, i am running Armbian on a Banana Pi for more than one month - all goes well No i wanted to do some checks - and i wanted to check the version of the kernel on bash - with /etc/armbian-version but this is only accessible when logged in as superuser At the moment i do not remember the credentials for the super user so i enter su and then a passwd - but i get back "Authentification failure" BTW: with password 1234 i do not succeed. question: What can i do now!? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/308537-authentification-failure-when-trying-to-access-superuser-on-bash/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 You can't see the OS version without root? That's messed up. If you don't remember the root password, and sudo is not asking for your normal user account password, then you need to reset the root password. One of these may help. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/308537-authentification-failure-when-trying-to-access-superuser-on-bash/#findComment-1565760 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kicken Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 su requires the root password. sudo requires your user account password, but requires that access is properly configured to do anything. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/308537-authentification-failure-when-trying-to-access-superuser-on-bash/#findComment-1565829 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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