got root?
James Blackwell
jblack at merconline.com
Fri Aug 27 14:48:38 CDT 2004
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:53:25PM +0200, Baptiste Mille-Mathias wrote:
> B wrote:
>
> >I'm been asked for root password but
> >was not asked to set this during install.
> >
> >
> This is normal, the user root is disabled on ubuntu,. You must use the
> commande sudo to make such kind of command (ex : "sudo vipw") with the
> user you created during the installation.
I figured I had entered the wrong password, so during the install I pulled
up a root shell during the install, and ran passwd.
> >Advice? Is this a bug?
> >
> >
> >
> No, a feature. :)
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