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bennettg
April 10th, 2005, 09:41 PM
big time nOOb here. 3 months on suse and 3 days on ubuntu. ubuntu is great. I am almost away from having to have xp on my machine, BUT.....

during installation, I used a poor password for sudo, as i did not realize there was no root as in suse. how do i change it?

bored2k
April 10th, 2005, 09:43 PM
big time nOOb here. 3 months on suse and 3 days on ubuntu. ubuntu is great. I am almost away from having to have xp on my machine, BUT.....

during installation, I used a poor password for sudo, as i did not realize there was no root as in suse. how do i change it?
Typing this in a terminal should give you the results you want:
passwd or
man passwd
For more information:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/RootSudo/

humanity_to_others
April 10th, 2005, 09:43 PM
sudo passwd your_user_name