[ubuntu-in] System administrator to enable user sharing- how?
Sanjay Bhangar
sanjaybhangar at gmail.com
Tue May 13 10:40:27 BST 2008
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Ravi Kumar <ra21vi at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:03 PM, 74yrs old <withblessings at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Lists.
> > How to create administorID and password or any alternative solution to
> overcome the problem noted below. In ubuntu, it appears there is no
> provision to create password for "root" or "administrator".whereas in other
> distros there is provision to create password for "root". Since I newbie to
> Ubuntu 8.04 I request valuable guidance.
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> Hi, for security in ubuntu, the use of sudo is preferred. root user is
> assigned random password, afaik. But if you want to set the password for
> root, that is very simple.
> $ sudo passwd root
You can also do $ sudo su - and that will log you in as root . Again,
this is not the recommended way for doing things in Ubuntu - u should
use "sudo" .
hth,
Sanjay
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