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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Hi topokin,
There are two ways to get root access.
In the console, type: sudo suand enter your users
password. This will give you sudo root privilages.
If you want to enable the root account, when in sudo root mode, just
enter passwd rootand select a password.
Hope this
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:19:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > I just installed ubuntu 6.06 server i386 and a user was created during the
> > installation. However I do not have any information as to the password for
> > "root" and I need to perform certain functions with root priviledge. So
> >
Title: FW: Root password
I just installed ubuntu 6.06 server i386 and a user was created during the installation. However I do not have any information as to the password for "root" and I need to perform certain functions with root priviledge. So my question is, what is the default password f
