r00t passwd

[Michael Shigorin]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:17:31AM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> > If it took him "countless hours" to work out how to assign a
> > root password in Ubuntu, what's he doing reviewing Linux
> > distributions?
> Yeah, this sounds fishy to me.  If someone has sufficient
> UNIX/Linux knowledge to know what a root password is, he darn
> well knows exactly how to set one.

Hm, maybe you'll do me a favour and help with resetting one?

pad:~> sudo grep ^root: /etc/shadow 
Password:
root:x:13144::::::

The thing is, it is neither empty nor non-existant (I know it :).
(the system's also not storing it in /etc/passwd or external A&A)

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