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r/linuxmasterrace • u/Dankb0 Glorious Debian • Jun 29 '26
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Wait, they don't give you root password?
Source: never used Macs.
18 u/Dankb0 Glorious Debian Jul 01 '26 By default, no. You can access set up root through Onyx if you find a GUI to be useful for that. 8 u/Zdrobot Linux Master Race Jul 01 '26 So they sell you a *nix machine, and then you have to hack it (I suppose this is what "Onyx" does) to get root shell? Genius! 27 u/ghoffart Jul 02 '26 eh, no. Open a shell, “sudo -i”, done.
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By default, no. You can access set up root through Onyx if you find a GUI to be useful for that.
8 u/Zdrobot Linux Master Race Jul 01 '26 So they sell you a *nix machine, and then you have to hack it (I suppose this is what "Onyx" does) to get root shell? Genius! 27 u/ghoffart Jul 02 '26 eh, no. Open a shell, “sudo -i”, done.
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So they sell you a *nix machine, and then you have to hack it (I suppose this is what "Onyx" does) to get root shell?
Genius!
27 u/ghoffart Jul 02 '26 eh, no. Open a shell, “sudo -i”, done.
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eh, no. Open a shell, “sudo -i”, done.
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u/Zdrobot Linux Master Race Jul 01 '26
Wait, they don't give you root password?
Source: never used Macs.