Cannot login

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 12:01:38PM +0100, Neil Woolford wrote:

> At 16:16 02/10/04, you wrote:
> 
> >Just looked at /etc/passwd and there is no mention of root as there is in 
> >my Mepis installation...Should this be so ??
> 
> This is normal for a default installation of Ubuntu.

It is normal for there not to be a password set for root, but it would be
decidedly NOT normal for the root account to be missing entirely from
/etc/passwd.  That would be a serious configuration error, and would
probably cause many more problems than X failing to start up.

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 - mdz