root

volvoguy volvoguy at gmail.com
Sat Oct 16 08:00:58 UTC 2004


On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:49:30 -0700 (PDT), Ashley Barz
<linuxeatswindows at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I really dont remember being asked to put in a
> password for root, I do however remember being told
> that my root account would be hidden.
> Everything works and looks great, accept for the fact
> that I can't use apt, because I don't know what my
> password is, is there a standard Ubuntu password?

Ubuntu uses "sudo" instead of a normal root account. This page on the
wiki should point you in the right direction.

http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/RootSudo

Aaron




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