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    Unable to 'su root' in kali on WSL

    Hello mates,
    I have installed kali on Windows with WSL, and I have created a default user in it.
    However, this user has only limited privileges, so I decided to use root instead.
    As far as I can remember, the default password for root is toor.
    Then I typed 'su root',and saw the dear 'Password:'
    'toor' my fingers moved before I can think.


    'Enter'


    su: Authentication Failure.



    Double checked https://docs.kali.org/introduction/k...ault-passwords to confirm it.


    Could anyone help me to recover the default password for my poor root? Thanks!

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    I'm sure the root password is randomly generated in WSL.
    It's irrelevant though, just type

    Code:
    sudo su
    to become root

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    Thank you @re4son. Your answer helped me as well.

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