stuck at part 5.4 in the manual

[John Graham]

> What should I do? I set the permissions for this user back in step 4.3. I
> also tried to log back in as root but I never created a password for root,
> so I'm stuck as being the user 'lfs'.

Not having a root password is a problem! Remember that when you enter
the chroot, you're root - so get out of the chroot, then back in, and
you can do what you want. Then you can make a root password by issuing
the command 'passwd'. Then it's probably a good idea to change the
owner of your sources directory to lfs, so you can unpack etc. stuff
there.

Hope this helps.

John G