Setting the root password

[John]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

><quote who="Wayne Sheehan">
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>>I'm a Red Hat user of many years and have just installed Ubuntu.  Looks
>>slick but I have just one question, how do you logon as root as nowhere
>>during the install did I have the chance to set the root password!  I wish
>>to configure/install tweak and generally play with the system, and get the
>>Video card operational.  Have I missed something? :)
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>root is disabled - please check out the FAQ on wiki.ubuntu.com for more
>details. You can use sudo to perform administrative operations, by typing in
>only your own password.
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Someone needs to fix the freaking PATH!!!

/sbin etc silver plate.