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jjluna
April 21st, 2005, 02:08 PM
Hi.

I installed Ubuntu yesterday midnight....and maybe I was sleeping but I don't remember set any password for the root user...I mean I donīt remember any screen asking me that password......could you help me telling me is there is a default password?.....or how to change it?

I already have a user and its password....so i can access to the system but not as root.

Thanks for your help

Best regards

fdoving
April 21st, 2005, 02:13 PM
Hi.

I installed Ubuntu yesterday midnight....and maybe I was sleeping but I don't remember set any password for the root user...I mean I donīt remember any screen asking me that password......could you help me telling me is there is a default password?.....or how to change it?

I already have a user and its password....so i can access to the system but not as root.

Thanks for your help

Best regards
In ubuntu the root account is disabled.
All administrative tasks are done using sudo and your current users password.

To get a root shell you can use 'sudo -i'
To execute a single command as root 'sudo <command'


- Frode

bored2k
April 21st, 2005, 02:15 PM
In ubuntu the root account is disabled.
All administrative tasks are done using sudo and your current users password.

To get a root shell you can use 'sudo -i'
To execute a single command as root 'sudo <command'


- Frode
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/RootSudo

jjluna
April 21st, 2005, 02:23 PM
Thanks a lot for the information.

Best Regard

JJ

camilord
April 25th, 2005, 07:16 AM
hehehe... i thought there's no way about that problem... tsk tsk tsk!