Installation Ubuntu Studio 7.10

[Newto Vanilla]

*By default, the root account password is locked in Ubuntu.* This means that
you cannot login as root directly or use the su command to become the root
user, however, since the root account physically exists it is still possible
to run programs with root-level privileges. This is where *sudo* comes in;
it allows authorized users (normally "Administrative" users; for further
information please refer to AddUsers) to run certain programs as root
without having to know the root password.

This means that in the terminal you should use sudo for commands that
require root privileges; simply prepend "sudo" to all the commands you would
normally run as root. For more extensive usage examples, please see below.
Similarly, when you run GUI programs that require root privileges (e.g. the
network configuration applet), you will also be prompted for a password.
Just remember, when sudo asks for a password, it needs *YOUR USER Password*,
and not the root account password.

I tried to install Ubuntu Studio 7.10, and it did not ask me for a root
password. I logged in as a user, and was able to log in. I tried to do some
administration and was asked for a password. I entered the user password and
it did not accept it. I tried again. It did not accept it. This is the same
password that I entered to log in. It was the only user that the
installation created. How come it did not work?
I tried to install this Ubuntu before I read the above help from your Ubuntu
site. It would have been helpful to a Ubuntu newbie like me to have had that
exact message with the link to the AddUsers as a http URL. This way, I would
have known that there was no root account. I thought that there was an
installation error I nearly gave up on Ubuntu because I could not do any
administration. If you had a screen before the ENTER USER name screen that
has that explaining that there is no root account, then many people could
understand why they were not asked for a root password. It was confusing to
a Ubuntu newbie and to a Linux newbie too.
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