"A. Dumas"  wrote in message
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> NY wrote:
>> I'm not sure that I know the (default) root password of my pi, since I
>> don't
>> remember being asked to choose one during installation.
>
> There isn't one / it's not set.

Ah. Something I did prompted me for "the password" (I'm not sure whether it
explicitly said it was for root) and I tried  and the Pi password but to
no avail. A sudo prefix still works without prompting, so I can't think what
it was that prompted me for the password.

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