forum.pistar.uk

Cannot open access to console, root account is locked?
this is on version 4.10

Why would we be getting this?

Thanks
kevin

For quite some time now, Debian (on which Raspbian, on which Pi-Star, is based) by default does NOT enable "root" login.

One is supposed to log in using a /user account/ (in this case, pi-star) with a user password, and therefrom use the "sudo" command to execute commands needing "root" privileges. Note that Raspbian (and Pi-Star) are configured such that "sudo" from the default user account does not require entering a password -- Debian itself is not that lax, and requires one to enter the password of the logged in user account (not a root account password). This is a safety to ensure that someone walking past a logged in system can not maliciously execute root privileged commands unless they already have the information to log into the system.