As others have said, the Ubuntu way is to put the hammer down when you
are not using it by using sudo. This makes perfect sense, and is the
prefered way of doing things. Doing things to the root account is not
advised.
I had a hard time trying to get used to this way, as I have always had
a root
On 11 Aug 2006, at 14:33, Malcolm Alce-King wrote:
> The password for Root is, whatever password you entered during
> installation.
>
Not really.
As others have said Ubuntu uses SUDO for admin tasks. If you want a
root password you do.
sudo passwd root
and create one.
hope that clears
Title: FW: Root password
The password for Root is, whatever password you entered
during installation.
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On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Matthew Saunders wrote:
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Hello Topokin,
Ubuntu, like other modern operating systems (such as Mac OSX), uses 'sudo'
for performing privileged ("root") tasks, when required
